Shot in the Heart
by Mikal Gilmore

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Book Review: Classical tragedy unfolds in an American Morman family
Summary: 5 Stars

This book will make any reader think more deeply about the origins of violent crime, and the impact of abuse on the developing spirit of a child.

Summary of Shot in the Heart

Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person to be executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a case which was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. This brave and eloquent book is the story that only Mikal Gilmore knows: the violence in multiple generations of his family, what the Gilmore house was like as he was growing up, his relationship with his brother, and his experience of the dramatic events surrounding Gary Gilmore's determination to be executed as planned, without appeal. Shot in the Heart pulls off the rare feat of conveying intense emotion without sentimentality or self-pity. The author's struggle is to set himself apart from the lurid true-crime fraternity of his father and brothers yet remain able to understand why he feels both guilty and lonely over his exclusion from his family's violent history. --Fiona Webster

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• Subjects > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Authors
• Specific Groups > Criminals
• True Accounts > Murder & Mayhem
• Social Sciences