Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death-personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable-as "nuanced and subtly intimate"; (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, Sunshine State.

On the night of September 28, 2016, twenty-five-year-old Carolyn Bush was brutally stabbed to death in her New York City apartment by her roommate Render Stetson-Shanahan, leavin...