Shot in the Heart: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

Shot in the Heart is a haunting and profoundly affecting book that exposes the dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore.

Through the story of Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, and his brother Mikal, this book explores a family destroyed by child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder.

Shot in the Heart is a history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin.

This book will leave no reader unchanged, and is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the darker side of American life.