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What People are Saying
About
"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..."
-
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
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
More about the Book...
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.