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“Rarely do nonfiction books engage me so deeply and satisfyingly as . . . A Case for Solomon has. Exhaustively researched . . . [the book] reads like fiction.” (Elissa Schappel Vanity Fair)“A thoughtful look at the elusiveness of truth and the fluidity of identity… It’s difficult not to empathize with both sides of this case, as everyone loses something—particularly the child caught in the middle.” --Publisher's Weekly"A Case For Solomon is a fascinating tale of an American changeling -- a little boy lost to the Louisiana swamps, only to be conjured back by headlines and a mother's agony. Within the life of Bobby Dunbar, a man who was a mystery even to himself, Tal McThenia and Margaret Cutright have uncovered a dramatic case of families caught between grief, injustice, and the desperate will to believe." --Paul Collins, author of The Murder of the Century"A Case for Solomon is haunting and unforgettable. It swept me up like no other book I've read in a long time. It is a mystery story finally solved after a hundred years, but it's also a profound and heartbreaking examination of identity and loss told by writers whose hard-won research and narrative gifts are plain on every page. The exotic settings, the characters whose love redeems as well as destroys, a plot that is downright biblical...and in the end a little boy with arms outstretched and this question on his lips: Who am I?" -- John Ed Bradley, author of Tupelo Nights and It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium“A Case for Solomon can easily be read as a kidnapping mystery or a legal thriller or a saga of class privilege or a lively indictment of the deadly shenanigans when the media circus comes to town. To me, it’s a tragic accounting of the abuses inherent in our confidence about what's in the best interests of a child. And all of it is evidence of the power of nonfiction--fact after astonishing fact.” --Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx"a solid read that provides plenty of food for thought." --Library Journal“A Case For Solomon is a thoroughly researched and detailed work of history that lets its mystery unfold with the restraint and craft of a detective story. Though as suspenseful and dark as any good thriller... it wonders, through the telling of the shocking tale, at greater questions - about the nature of identity, and family, and to what lengths people might go to avoid knowing a terrible truth." --The Times-Picayune"The saga related in the book is so mind-bending that some readers might need to digest certain passages about family connections more than once, as I felt compelled to do. It is worth the effort." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A fascinating narrative about an ostensible kidnapping and a 90-year case of mistaken identity, fully steeped in the flavor of the era. [A Case for Solomon] is a narrative about the fierceness of parental love, the flaws of the legal system, and ultimately about how we derive our own sense of who we are." --The Boston Globe
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Tal McThenia is a freelance writer who reported and wrote The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar, a one-hour radio documentary for the acclaimed public radio series This American Life. He has received residencies at the ShenanArt’s Playwrights’ Workshop and the MacDowell Colony. He lives in New York.Margaret Dunbar Cutright is the granddaughter of Bobby Dunbar, the victim of the kidnapping in A Case for Solomon. She has researched the case for more than a decade, gathering and analyzing legal documents, family correspondence, and newspapers, and has had extensive and ongoing contact with descendants of all three of the families involved in the story. She lives in North Carolina.
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Taschenbuch: 464 Seiten
Verlag: Free Press; Auflage: Reprint (13. August 2013)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1439158606
ISBN-13: 978-1439158609
Größe und/oder Gewicht:
14 x 3 x 21,3 cm
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Nr. 2.054.982 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
Wonderful, intricate mystery story. Who was Bobby Dunbar? What became of him? This must have been a sensational story in the 1920's in the South. It covers three or more states and goes backwards and forwards trying to answer those two questions. The author has done an incredible job of figuring out who Bobby Dunbar (the author's grandfather) really was. She doesn't psycho-babble about the whys of everyone's behavior and she doesn't put the standards of 21st century morality upon the people of the 1920's. She just tells a great story. And it is a riveting, great story.
Here we have the intriguing story of little Bobby Dunbar, who disappeared during a family stay at a lakeside camp. Now really, what kind of parents would be so careless as to not watch such a young child on the shores of alligator infested water? This wasn't a case of somebody being distracted for a couple of minutes; they just plain weren't watching this child. A search is mounted to no avail. Many months later a child who looks like Bobby is found with a traveling repairman. He says he is caring for the child, and the mother is back in NC. This is confirmed by the mother and many witnesses, but the Dunbars also lay claim to the child. SPOILER ALERT--it's very obvious from the amount of evidence on the side of the NC mother and the tinker that the child is not Bobby Dunbar, but justice isn't always served. Here we see how in the beginning of the 20th century, money and connections counted more than truth. The real mother was poor and unmarried. The strong suspicion is that some people realized this wasn't the Dunbar child, but thought he'd be better off with a "nice" family rather than with a "fallen" woman. The irony of that is that the Dunbars didn't turn out to be a very solid family, while the real mother went on to a fine, solid life. The questions that are raised in the reader's mind are what did the Dunbars really know? Did they truly believe Bobby was their child, or did they know or least have doubts? What did the child really remember? How much of his behavior was coached by the Dunbars and their lawyers? In later years did he know the truth? His actions indicate he may have suspected. Of course, the largest question is, what happened to the real Bobby Dunbar? Was he eaten by an alligator? Drowned? What of these intriguing tales about a second child that "Bobby" thought he remembered being with the tinker?Even though I already knew the outcome of the mystery before I started reading the book, I found myself glued to my Kindle. The authors did a fine job of making people come to life. I found myself strongly disliking some people. I wanted to smack some of the newspaper reporters who made up blatant lies to scoop the competition, not caring one bit that lives were in the balance.After finishing the book, I kept thinking about how the jury's wrong decision left the real mother missing her child for her whole life, and how "Bobby" suffered through a bad childhood because of the self-absorbed, weak character Dunbars. There is lots to think about with this story.Also be sure to listen to the pod cast of "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar" at the This American Life website. There are some very memorable interviews of family descendants on that broadcast. You will just fall in love with some of those people.Final note: the Kindle version works fine. No navigation issues or out of synch pictures, even if you enlarge the font.
Having first heard of the Bobby Dunbar case from the 2008 "This American Life" radio show episode devoted to it, I was looking forward to this book for a long time. The case is fascinating still to this day, the 100th anniversary of the disappearance of Dunbar that put the whole story in motion. And the book mostly lived up to -- and exceeded -- my expectations, until it came to the end."The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar", the radio show from '08, focused mainly on Margaret Dunbar's search for the truth to her grandfather's heritage in the early 21st century. Of course, it told the backstory of the Dunbar "kidnapping" in excellent detail too, but the meat of the story was Margaret's quest for the truth and how it isolated her from her family that really didn't want to know the truth.When reading through "A Case for Solomon", I was overwhelmed at times. The level of detail, culled from old newspaper reports, legal briefs and other historical records, is truly amazing. Especially when it came to the trial of Cant Walters: I found myself having to go back to the "Cast of Characters" section at the beginning of the book to keep straight who was who.As a piece of reporting, as a legal thriller, as a missing persons/kidnapping epic, "A Case for Solomon" has few peers. It really is exceptional in this regard. Once it gets past the trial, though, the next 80 to 90 years are told in a much more condensed fashion. I was looking forward to that high level of detail being given to the story told in "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar", including more about Percy Dunbar, Margaret meeting the descendants of Julia Anderson (and totally rubbing them the wrong way at first), and more about the DNA test that broke this story wide open, and all the drama surrounding that.But really, that is a personal gripe, based on my expectations of the book. As written, it is one of the best legal thrillers/true crime books I have personally read. I would just recommend you listen to "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar", which you can stream for free from the NPR/This American Life website, too. Both works can be seen as a companion piece to each other.
I live in the city in which this occurred, and I found it very interesting. Being an history student, I found the story extremely informative. It was fascinating to read stories (and get a glimpse at their character)about folks whose names have been revered and which are on street signs. The fact that this incident was even able to occur was disturbing. It made me thankful for the progress that has been made in forensic science, making it less likely something like this would ever happen.My sympathies go out to the families involved, and I am grateful to the authors for having the wherewithal to follow through on researching and writing this book in spite of family dissent.
A great book about a no win situation. A child is lost and to fix it, another one is found and returned. But the mother of the second boy is denied her own child. Thanks to DNA, the matter is settled, but at what cost to the living who survive the parents involved and the child himself. If it seems farfetched, it isn't.
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