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Tamerlan

Patimat Suleimanova, aunt of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, holds a photo from the family archive at her house in Makhachkala.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s worldview was shaped by a jarring, unsettled childhood

April 8, 2015Books

In her new book The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, Masha Gessen says no single event explains the brothers’ transition. But she looks for clues in Tamerlan’s unstable early years.

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