Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Dislocation. Map: The Tsarnaevs' journey ; Love ; Wandering ; Dreaming of America -- Part 2: Becoming the bombers. Map: The failed escape ; Coming to America ; A decade of broken dreams ; His place in the world ; Patriots' Day ; They are us -- Part 3: Aftermath. How Musa Khadzhimuratov fell out of love with America ; The strange death of Ibragim Todashev ; Everyone is going to jail ; What will we know?

"On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother Dzhokhar was captured and ultimately charged on thirty federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants? How did such a nightmare come to pass?"--Amazon.com.

In an effort to determine why the atrocity occurred, the author traces the lives of the two immigrant brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.