Efrem Sigel
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Joshua and Nathalie Sandler's only child, fourteen-year-old Daniel, disappears one day in a hamlet in western Massachusetts, their world changes in an instant. Over the next year, Joshua neglects everything else to search ceaselessly for their son, while Nathalie, a gifted cellist, withdraws into herself, unable to play even a note of music. With lyrical prose and building suspense, Sigel portrays the anguish of parents who, despite the crushing...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This riveting memoir recounts the author’s experience on a jury in a murder trial and his subsequent investigation of the conditions in East Harlem that led young people to be involved in drug-selling and criminal activity. Besides the trial itself, the book is the story of the failures in NYCHA housing projects, the schools and the criminal justice system, and the efforts of a handful of educators, nonprofit leaders and criminal justice reformers...
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