The Most Wonderful Terrible Person: A Memoir of Murder in the Golden State

On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller's life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only fourteen years old, Debra becomes a ward of the court, grappling with the unfathomable trauma of watching her mother's trial and conviction-a devastation that is only amplified when her family's tragedy is splashed across headlines and featured in Joan Didion'sSlouching Towards Bethlehem.

Desperate to escape the notoriety of her family and utterly ill equipped to face t...