{"product_id":"2940169091069","title":"While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love--Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other--and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three, the son of a distant, authoritarian father and a mother with a family history of mental illness. All three paths forever altered by a violent crime, all three stories a wake-up call to the system that failed to see the signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait in microcosm of the state of mental health care in this country--as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness. Culminating in Kalebu's dangerous slide toward violence--observed by family members, police, mental health workers, lawyers, and judges, but stopped by no one-\u003ci\u003eWhile the City Slept \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a crime of opportunity and of the string of missed opportunities that made it possible. It shows what can happen when a disturbed member of society repeatedly falls through the cracks, and in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Wes Moore \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, \u003c\/i\u003eis an indelible, human-level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113956622576,"sku":"2940169091069","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169091069_p0.jpg?v=1763671778","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169091069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}