{"product_id":"what-we-tell-the-lonely-the-true-crime-story-of-michelle-carter-9798231474493","title":"What We Tell The Lonely: The True Crime Story of Michelle Carter","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Donna Carr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Daybac Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Daybac Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - Mass Murder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat We Tell The Lonely\u003c\/strong\u003e is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction that traces a modern tragedy born not of violence, but of words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the quiet glow of phone screens, two lonely teenagers form an intense bond-one built on late-night messages, shared despair, and the fragile hope that understanding might be enough. Conrad Roy III is a young man struggling with depression and anxiety, outwardly capable yet inwardly unraveling. Michelle Carter, isolated and desperate to matter, becomes his constant presence-first as comfort, then as something far more dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their digital intimacy deepens, reassurance gives way to certainty, compassion erodes into insistence, and language itself becomes a force that can no longer be taken back. What unfolds is not a conventional crime story, but a devastating examination of influence, responsibility, and the moral weight of speech in the digital age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book moves between private messages, family grief, and courtroom reckoning to ask unsettling questions: When does care become control? Can words kill? And what do we owe the vulnerable when connection is only a screen away?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about monsters-but about proximity, loneliness, and what happens when presence replaces judgment, and silence arrives too late.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daybac Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860842664087,"sku":"9798231474493","price":1094.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798231474493.webp?v=1769959100","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-we-tell-the-lonely-the-true-crime-story-of-michelle-carter-9798231474493","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}