Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave, by Deanne Stillman - SIGNED

Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave, by Deanne Stillman. 2008 softcover. 272 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED.

August 2, 1991, Twentynine Palms, California: a troubled Marine with a long history of sexual violence who has recently returned from the Gulf War savagely murders two young girls. One girl was about to turn sixteen, the other twenty-one. Exquisitely and inexorably, Deanne Stillman uses this tragedy as a prism through which she explores not only the murders and the families involved but a rootless culture of fatherless families, shattered dreams, and relentless violence. In haunting, vivid prose, she creates a far-reaching story of America itself, carrying us into the empty white heart of the Mojave, as we meet and come to know the modern nomads who turn to the West for salvation only to be devoured by its false promise. The gruesome true story also provides a searing examination of a military culture and its code of silence.