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. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins' story of that night, the horrifying night when her cousins Julie and Robin Kerry and her brother Tom were brutally assaulted.

Cummins’s choice to disappear from her own story for long stretches becomes a liability as things progress.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. Louis Post Dispatch headline that read: “Attorney, Mother Say Suspects Were Beaten: Two Young Men Accused Police of Brutality. On April 5th, the last night of their holiday, Tom decides to sneak out with his two cousins to embark on the most innocent of escapades: to see where wannabe poet Julie had graffitied a poem on the old Chain of Rocks Bridge, a local landmark once part of Route 66 but disused and superseded by a more modern bridge nearby. The author and her brother, Tom, are confronted by four unruly men while spending time with their cousins Julie and Robin Kerry on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge.

A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St.That night on the bridge, the three cousins encountered four youths around their own ages, Marlin Gray, Antonio Richardson, Reginald Clemons and Daniel Winfrey.

Não contesto que o pudessem ser, mas todos os intervenientes são acima de tudo pessoas, com virtudes e defeitos, e retratados deste modo tornam-se mesmo muito entediantes. This quote serves as a powerful reminder that our reactions and outlooks have the potential to overshadow and transcend the circumstances that unfold around us, allowing us to navigate the unpredictable terrain of life with grace and determination. Their cousin, Tom Cummins, was with them and survived only to be accused by the police of the crime. To be completely innocent and accused guilty has got to be one of the worse experiences in the world.

The river moans and sighs, Swallows my memoiries, And spits back currents of regret, To drown careless swimmers, 'Neath onion's shield, She sheds saltless tears, Howling at the moon.