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![]() Tall Man
By Chloe Hooper 272 pages; Scribner An adrenaline rush to the heart, Chloe Hooper's Tall Man takes us inside a remote township in Queensland seared by violence, corruption, and racism. In 2004 an Aboriginal man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at Chris Hurley, a white policeman. Soon after, Doomadgee's horribly bruised body was found dead in his cell. Hooper's brilliant, humane reporting on the trial of Hurley—at 67 a "tall man" like the eponymous soul-clawing demon of local legend—is laced with complex questions about the meaning of justice in a land of poisoned dreams. From the April 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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