# October Mourning

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- Book: [October Mourning](https://www.bookquiver.com/leslea-newman/october-mourning) ([October Mourning.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leslea-newman/october-mourning.md))
- Authors: [Lesléa Newman](https://www.bookquiver.com/leslea-newman)
- Publisher: candlewick
- ISBN: 978-15-3621-577-9
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2020-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped...