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While They Slept (Paperback)
An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
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Jody and Billy Gilly suffered horribly at the hands of their brutal Baptist parents: frequently they were tied to the family tractor and whipped for their sins. Both children sought out help from social workers and teachers, but were ignored. Finally,......more
Jody and Billy Gilly suffered horribly at the hands of their brutal Baptist parents: frequently they were tied to the family tractor and whipped for their sins. Both children sought out help from social workers and teachers, but were ignored. Finally, Billy told Jody he was going to kill their parents as a way to protect her. As Jody sat in her room, she listened to him murder them with a baseball bat. Serving a life sentence in prison, Billy draws children`s books about large animals that help protect children. Kathryn Harrison, who has written about her own traumatic experiences of incest and rape (THE KISS), has crafted an eloquent and unflinching book that sympathizes deeply with children and with the horror of being abused and alone. WHILE THEY SLEPT moves beyond the sensationalism of most true-crime writing to deeply probe the wounded psyches of children, and to explore the stories they create to keep themselves company in the darkness of their lives. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.
- Author:
- Harrison, Kathryn
- ISBN:
- 9780345516602
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 282
- Publish Date:
- 11/24/2009
- Publisher:
- Ballantine Books
- Language:
- English
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In the early morning of April 27, 1984, outside Medford, Ore., 18-year-old Billy Gilley bludgeoned his parents, Bill and Linda, and his 11-year-old sister, Becky, to death. He believed his act would allow him and his 16-year-old sister, Jody, to free themselves from an abusive home. Comprising extensive interviews with both Jody, a Georgetown graduate and victims' rights advocate, and Billy, serving three consecutive life sentences in Oregon, Harrison recounts the trial, where Jody was the prosecution's star witness, and attempts to understand the Gilleys' troubled family history. Despite differing accounts from the now estranged siblings on the severity of their parents' abuse, it's clear that both parents routinely engaged in verbal and physical cruelty. Billy claimed his murder of Becky was unintentional, but it sealed his fate. Novelist and memoirist Harrison (The Kiss) attends admirably to detail, and her dissection of the effects of violence on both perpetrators and victims is thorough. But by bookending the account with musings on her incestuous relationship with her own father--already addressed in both her fiction and nonfiction--Harrison dilutes the power of the Gilleys' story. (June 17) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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