A Rip in Heaven

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It was a heartbreakingly sad and shattering account of a brutal crime, but I was utterly shocked by the treatment of the victims by the very people who were charged with their protection. It emphasizes the importance of resilience and perseverance when navigating through the darkest moments of life. When the police asked Tom Cummins to describe his relationship to his cousin Julie, he mentioned “a real strong bond” that they shared (page 100). The powerful narrative shows the resilience needed not only to survive such a traumatic event but to weather the painful years following the tragedy. I find in this case it is better for the events to unfold to each reader as they turn the pages, much as I did… having hope, having shock, having sorrow… it is indeed a personal journey.

as he had no sleep for 30 hours) The horror of his situation is recounted based upon Tom's memories of his interrogation and short incarceration. At its best, it is about the detective who won’t quit; the family of the victim who won’t forget; the innocent man who won’t stop trying to prove his innocence. I am NOT a conspiracy theorist at all but I do think that there is another explanation for the crime. With a compelling narrative style and an unflinching exploration of grief, loss, and justice, A Rip in Heaven is a hauntingly poignant account that will leave readers pondering its themes long after they've turned the final page.Part of it, I think, is that it allows people living a safe, stab-free existence to peek at the dark side of the soul. In 1991, 16-year-old Cummins, her younger sister, Kathy, 14, and older brother, Tom, 18, are vacationing in St.

Without getting into the details, of which there are many, it will suffice to say that the convictions of the four defendants are controversial. There are detailed word portraits of each of the main characters in the story—the book was much more about Robin, Kerry and Tom than it was about the killers, and pictures of the killers were not even included in the photo centerfold. Her insights in this short section are worth far more than the affected indifference and glaring incompleteness that dominates the rest of her book. Jeanine Cummins is the author of four books: the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven, and the novels The Outside Boy, The Crooked Branch, and American Dirt. Durante 10 anos, a família lidou com a dor da perda e com o pesadelo de um processo judicial cheio de enganos, com os ataques da comunicação social e com o esquecimento das vidas que se perderam.This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. The quote "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury" from A Rip in Heaven encapsulates the idea of rising above the harm someone has inflicted upon us. Most of the memoir, which is written by Tom Cummins’s sister, is about her family’s struggle to survive the crime and its aftermath.

In this way, A Rip in Heaven is not simply a nightmare of rape and murder, it is the nightmare of the labyrinthine, stacked-deck system of American justice, where single-mindedness and myopia can crack open a case – or steamroll an innocent bystander.An old-fashioned habit, no doubt, but one that had been successfully and irreversibly instilled in him by his father. Although nobody could possibly have anticipated the horror that they would experience on the night of April 4th, 1991.