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Melanie R. Thernstrom '86, author of Halfway Heaven, an account of the 1995 murder-suicide case involving two Dunster House residents, spoke about her book and read portions of it to an audience of more than 30 people at the Cambridge Public Library yesterday...
...real reason for which I wrote this book was because I gained access to Sinedu's diary," Thernstrom said. "I found it an incredibly moving experience to read and I felt like I wanted to write her story...
...Thernstrom described Halfway Heaven not as criticism of Harvard as an institution or a reflection on the lack of support services for students suffering from mental illnesses, but as a narrative, an "attempt to understand what happened, to get inside Sinedu's mind, to unravel the mystery. That was my focus...
...Thernstrom said her interest in Tadesse resulted from a brief contact the two had while Thernstrom was teaching an English department seminar in 1992, for which Tadesse applied...
...Thernstrom did not admit Tadesse to the seminar, so the student approached her to appeal her case...