the book
about margie
workshops
poems
6 years later
what can i do
about abuse
The Criminal Justice System

 

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A mother's painful story to alert others about the danger of intimate partner homicide....

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"Funny - He Doesn't Look Like a Murderer"

"Shirley Bostrom has written a powerful book that strips away any unsatisfying academic explanations for the tragedy of domestic violence..."
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Antoinette Bosco, Mother of a murdered son and daughter -in-law and author of "Finding Peace through Pain".

"No one who has ever loved - child, parent, partner, friend - can fail to be deeply moved by the poems in Shirley Bostrom's book..."
- Amy Dawson
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It is estimated that three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 1996, among all female murder victims in the United States, 30 percent were slain by their husbands and boyfriends/ These are statistics that Shirley Pierce Bostrom knows only too well: It was in 1996 that her daughter, Dr. Margaret E. Bostrom, was stabbed to death by her husband.

In the book Funny - He Doesn't Look Like a Murderer but Margie is Dead, Bostrom shares her family's head-on collision with the tragic results of domestic violence, dispelling the myth that this doesn't happen in middle-class, educated families. She courageously tells us of the permanent grief that has come to define her own life as she strives to give meaning to Margie's death and to keep her memory alive/

Share Bostrom's struggle as she and her family:

Attempt to heal after the horrific death of Margie
Deal with the criminal justice system, fighting to keep Margie's murderer behind bars
Discover what it means to live a "normal" life again.
Become a powerful advocates against domestic violence.

Eloquently written and stunningly honest, this book lets us walk through a parent's worse nightmare without leaving us hopeless. It is a tragic tale that will forever and profoundly change your life.

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