Reviews
"[Beautiful] is essentially a new-milleniumGo Ask Alicewith a similar blend of cautionary horror story and weirdly fascinated detail . . . . Chilling narration . . . . There's boldness in the book's willingness to make Cassie unsympathetic at times . . . . Train-wreck fascination galore . . . . It'll probably be passed around enthusiastically."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, November 2009., "Part courtroom drama, partEat, Pray, Love--style memoir, part social-injustice expose. The story of a powerful friendship."--Chicago Magazine, "Part courtroom drama, part Eat, Pray, Love --style memoir, part social-injustice expose. The story of a powerful friendship."-- Chicago Magaz ine, "So you think you would never confess to a murder you did not commit, that no innocent person would?Long Way Homewill make you think again. Laura Caldwell's riveting tale about Jovan Mosley's false confession to a crime he had nothing to do with reads like a thriller, but it's absolutely and frightfully true. This book will rattle your foundations."-David R. Dow, University of Houston law professor and author ofThe Autobiography of an Execution, "So you think you would never confess to a murder you did not commit, that no innocent person would? Long Way Home will make you think again. Laura Caldwell's riveting tale about Jovan Mosley's false confession to a crime he had nothing to do with reads like a thriller, but it's absolutely and frightfully true. This book will rattle your foundations." --David R. Dow, University of Houston law professor and author of The Autobiography of an Execution, "So you think you would never confess to a murder you did not commit, that no innocent person would? Long Way Home will make you think again. Laura Caldwell's riveting tale about Jovan Mosley's false confession to a crime he had nothing to do with reads like a thriller, but it's absolutely and frightfully true. This book will rattle your foundations." --David R. Dow, University of Houston law professor and author of The Autobiography of an Execution, eoeSo you think you would never confess to a murder you did not commit, that no innocent person would? Long Way Home will make you think again. Laura Caldwelle(tm)s riveting tale about Jovan Mosleye(tm)s false confession to a crime he had nothing to do with reads like a thriller, but ite(tm)s absolutely and frightfully true. This book will rattle your foundations.e e"David R. Dow, University of Houston law professor and author of The Autobiography of an Execution, "So you think you would never confess to a murder you did not commit, that no innocent person would? Long Way Home will make you think again. Laura Caldwell's riveting tale about Jovan Mosley's false confession to a crime he had nothing to do with reads like a thriller, but it's absolutely and frightfully true. This book will rattle your foundations." -David R. Dow, University of Houston law professor and author of The Autobiography of an Execution, "An absolute page turner, full of vitality and bristling with savvy insights about the workings of the criminal justice system." -- Scott Christianson, author of The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the Gas Chamber, "Part courtroom drama, part Eat, Pray, Love --style memoir,part social-injustice expose.The story of a powerful friendship."-- Chicago Magaz ine, "Part courtroom drama, part Eat, Pray, Love --style memoir, part social-injustice expose. The story of a powerful friendship."-- Chicago Magaz ine, "An absolute page turner, full of vitality and bristling with savvy insights about the workings of the criminal justice system." -- Scott Christianson, author ofThe Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the Gas Chamber
