While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America

Synopsis

On A Summer Night In 2009, Three Lives Intersected In One American Neighborhood. Two People Newly In Love--teresa Butz And Jennifer Hopper, Who Spent Years Trying To Find Themselves And Who Eventually Found Each Other--woke Up To Find Isaiah Kalebu, Twenty-three Years Old And With A History Of Mental Illness, Standig Over Them With A Knife. In This Compassionate And Riveting Account Of A Murder In Seattle, Eli Sanders, Who Won A Pulitzer Prize For His Coverage Of The Crime, Offers A Portrait In Microcosm Of The State Of Mental Health Care In America--as Well As An Inspiring Story Of Love And Forgiveness. Culminating In Kalebu's Slide Toward Violence--observed By Family Members, Police, Mental Health Workers, Lawyers, And Judges, But Stopped By No One.