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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
On the primary anniversary of the occasions at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling creator of Columbine provides an intimate, deeply shifting account of the odd teenage survivors who was activists and driven again in opposition to the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders—inspiring thousands and thousands of American citizens to sign up for their grassroots #neveragain motion.
Nineteen years in the past, Dave Cullen was once some of the first to reach at Columbine Prime, even earlier than a number of the SWAT groups went in. Whilst writing his acclaimed account of the tragedy, he suffered bouts of secondary PTSD. He coated the entire later tragedies from a distance, running with a cadre of mavens cultivated from academia and the FBI, however swore he may by no means go back to the scene of a ghastly crime.
But in March 2018, Cullen went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas Prime Faculty as a result of one thing considerably other was once taking place. In just about two decades witnessing the mass shootings epidemic improve, he was once shocked and awed through the braveness, anger, and conviction of the highschool’s scholars. Refusing to permit adults and the media to form their tale, those exceptional kids took keep an eye on, the use of their grief as a catalyst for modification, remodeling tragedy right into a motion of marvelous desire that has galvanized a country.
Cullen unfolds the tale of Parkland during the voices of key individuals whose various personalities and outlooks contain each aspect of the motion. As a substitute of taking us into the minds of the killer, he is taking us into the hearts of the Douglas scholars as they take care of the average issues of highschool scholars in every single place—looking forward to faculty popularity letters, finding out for mid-time period tests, competing in opposition to their athletic competitors, striking in combination the yearbook, staging the musical Spring Awakening, taking part in promenade and commencement—Whilst shifting ahead from a bad experience that has altered them ceaselessly.
Deeply researched and fantastically informed, Parkland is an in-intensity exam of this pivotal second in American tradition—and an up-shut portrait that unearths what those odd younger persons are like as youngsters. Because it celebrates the fervour of those marvelous scholars who’re making historical past, this spellbinding ebook is an inspiring name to motion for lasting modification.
