Under the Bridge
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2009
496 pages
978-1-4391-8411-0 (ISBN)
Description
*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!*
"A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times." ?Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.
In this "tour de force of crime reportage" (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls?and boy?accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
"A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times." ?Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home.
In this "tour de force of crime reportage" (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls?and boy?accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.
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Rebecca Godfrey (1967-2022) was an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her books include The Torn Skirt, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; the award-winning true crime story Under the Bridge, the inspiration behind a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough as Rebecca Godfrey; and her final novel Peggy, a fictionalized account of Peggy Guggenheim's coming of age. Godfrey earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and taught writing at Columbia University. She lived with her husband and daughter in upstate New York.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction: Mary Gaitskill
- Author's Note
- Epigraph
- Prologue: Carefully Floated
- Part One: The Youth of View Royal
- Colin Jones
- Warren G.
- Syreeta
- Slivers and Sawdust
- She's Like My Sister
- "A Very Dangerous Young Lady"
- A New Home
- More Friends than Enemies
- A Constant Quest
- The Goddess of Victory
- A Phone Call
- The Ways of the World
- The Conversation
- Just Kinda Kidding Around
- The Return of the Dangerous Lady
- An Invitation
- Lights in the Sky
- The Night of the Russian Satellite
- Under the Bridge
- Part Two: The Killers
- You Can't See Anything
- Some Kind of Fantasy
- Syreeta Does Some Laundry
- Remembrance Day
- The Russian Sisters
- The Ferocious Feline
- Mrs. Smith Offers Advice
- Stick with Da Crew
- After School
- Your Young Oaks
- The Story
- Mexico
- The Other Side
- Something's Happened Here
- On the Field, the Field they were Once on
- Under Arrest
- Major Crimes
- Part III: An Unusual Investigation
- Saturday Morning
- A Girl in the Reeds
- The Guy in this Case
- Right Out of Place
- The Fireman's Son
- A Morality Drama
- Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren and a Fairy Tale
- On the Bridge
- The Mechanism of Death
- A Gift in the Gorge
- The Death of a Teenager
- Bring Back Mr. Kucey
- Bad Girls
- The Most Important Witness
- This is Not a House that's Been Broken into
- Memorial
- Part IV: The Trials
- The Color of Right
- The Meaning of Animosity
- A Darker Place
- After the Trial
- The Village Idiot
- The Many Trials of Miss Kelly Marie Ellard
- Another Chance
- California Cathy
- A Reunion, of Sorts
- The Cost of Memory
- Part V: The Adulthood of View Royal
- The Visitor's form
- Daughters and a Dream
- Afterword: Mercy Alone
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
