By Melanie Thernstrom. Sinedu Tadesse's murder of her roommate, Trang Ho (and attack on Trang's friend, Thao Nguyen, who survived), is the catalytic crime Thernstrom tries to untangle in Halfway Heaven -- while also parsing the lesser crimes the institution itself may have been guilty of by failing to support a depressed and struggling student from halfway around the world.
This hardcover first is in decent shape: some bumps and rubbing to the jacket; some smudges on the leading edge of the jacket; some aging to the page edges. A perfectly creditable reading copy.