"The mother of one of the two shooters at Columbine High School draws on personal recollections, journal entries and video recordings to piece together what led to her son's unpredicted breakdown and share insights into how other families might recognize warning signs,"--NoveList.
Record details
ISBN:1101902752
ISBN:9781101902752
Physical Description:xxii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm print
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Andrew Solomon -- PART I: The last people on earth -- "There's been a shooting at Columbine High School" -- Slivers of glass -- Someone else's life -- A resting place -- Premonition -- Boyhood -- One mother to another -- A place of sorrow -- Life with grief -- The end of denial -- PART II: Toward understanding -- The depths of his despair -- Fateful dynamic -- Pathway to suicide: Dylan's junior year -- Pathway to suicide: Dylan's senior year -- Collateral damage -- A new awareness -- Judgment -- The wrong question -- Conclusion: Knowable folds.
Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 September #2
The author, whose son Dylan was one of two shooters who massacred 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in 1999, uses recollections, journals, and the profoundly disturbing writings and video recordings he left behind to reconstruct events and ask hard questions: Why did Dylan go so very wrong? And what could she have done? With a 200,000-copy first printing.
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