Acts of Violence
by Ryan David Jahn
CRIME
MACMILLAN NEW WRITING
06/11/09
In 1964 Kitty Genovese’s brutal murder was allegedly witnessed by 38 people, none of whom helped her. Jahn takes the bones of this incident and turns them into dark fiction, weaving a tale of a woman’s savage murder outside her New York apartment block. From the young man agonising over whether to leave his dying mother to fight in Vietnam, to the couple having an affair and the nurse who fears she may have killed a child, the bystanders become connected by their failure to come to the aid of a woman brutally killed.
Acts of Violence offers atmospheric insights into our way of life and our refusal to take responsibility.
Marie Jenkinson, Waterstone's Sheffield
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