A Mother's Reckoning: Living In The Aftermath Of The Columbine Tragedy

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On April 20 1999 Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado Over the course of minutes they would kill twelve students & a teacher & wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives For the last sixteen years Sue Klebold Dylan's mother has lived with the indescribable grief & shame of that day How could her child the promising young man she had loved & raised be responsible for such horror? & how as his mother had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What if anything could she have done differently? These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy In A Mother's Reckoning she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible In the hope that the insights & understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress she tells her story in full drawing upon her personal journals the videos & writings that Dylan left behind & on countless interviews with mental health experts Filled with hard-won wisdom & compassion A Mother's Reckoning is a powerful & haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time & with fresh wounds from the recent Newtown & Charleston shootings never has the need for understanding been more urgent All author profits from the book will be donated to research & to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues