montgomery county (md.)

"Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive in class and on the playground. Eventually, he became close to Kalfani, a kid he looked up to on the basketball court. Years after he got the call telling him that Kalfani was dead, another sickening casualty of gun violence, Will looks back on the relationships with an extraordinary series of mentors that enabled him to thrive"--Provided by publisher.

Describes how sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared from a shopping mall in Washington, D.C. in 1975, and the forty-year effort to bring their kidnapper to justice. The author covered the original story years ago, and now returns to recount its conclusion.

A true crime story about the disappearance of two sisters in 1975, and the effort--forty years later-- to bring their kidnapper, Lloyd Lee Welch, to justice.