Offers a candid, intimate memoir of the horrific repercussions of a shocking crime on one family, beginning with a nightmarish assault on the author's two cousins and brother, who managed to escape to flag down help, and following the family's odyssey.
Praise for A Rip in Heaven“Cummins presents a mesmerizing, highly balanced memoir....[A] compelling, novel-like account...highly admirable.”—Publishers Weekly
“Cummins recounts the wrenching drama in a straightforward, expertly paced narrative that reads like a novel.”—People
Jeanine Cummins is the bestselling, award-winning author of the groundbreaking memoir
A Rip in Heaven and the novels
The Outside Boy,
The Crooked Branch, and
American Dirt. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.