The Third Rainbow Girl
The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Recommended by Jia Tolentino and Lulu Miller
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Crime, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
In the afternoon or early evening of June 25, 1980, two young women, Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero, were killed in an isolated clearing in rural Pocahontas County West Virginia. They were hitchhiking to an outdoor peace festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Their killings have been called _x0093_The Rainbow Murders._x0094_For thirteen ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Crime, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
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Jia Tolentino
“I’d like to say a few words abt this book. I haven’t been this rapt reading in years. It’s true crime, but not. It’s a meditation on place &truth. It’s a cliffhanger & a lush brigadoon, studded w gems on what it is 2b a journo/detective/searcher of answers CANNOT REC HIGHLY ENUF | This book by Emma Eisenberg, whose reporting on the Sage Smith case was so essential for me, is a really beautiful study in subverted expectations: true crime, comingofage, West Virginia, the arcs of each story unexpectedly kinked”
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