The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Book Overview

*** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" ***

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia--and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316449237
• ISBN13: 9780316449236
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Interesting but .....

Although the title indicated it is about a fascinating murder in W. Virginia, the author strays into so many other subjects, it's too much. Many of these other subjects - her ongoing personal search for identity; the history of the separation between the 2 Virginias; the culture of Appalachia; and the extensive and often repetitious personal and professional histories of many characters - make for distraction and confusion in the book. I learned many things but it's a difficult read.