Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir - Hardback

Nelson Gross led an outsized life--one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways. For his daughter, Dinah Lenney, the parent of her own young children, the loss sparked a self-reckoning that led to this book, which is both a meditation on grief and a coming of age story. By turns funny and sad, frustrating and fulfilling, her candid memoir conducts readers through marriage and divorce, blended and broken families--and, finally, the kinds of conflict that infect the best of us under the best of circumstances. In the end, Lenney leaves us with the sense that in spite of extraordinary events--as with most families--it is mutual forgiveness and love that lead us to empathy, acceptance, and the will to carry on.

• | Author: Dinah Lenney
• | Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0803229763
• | ISBN-13: 9780803229761