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A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy / Sue Klebold.

By: Klebold, Sue [author.]Material type: TextTextCopyright date: ♭2016Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781101902752Subject(s): Klebold, Sue | Klebold, Dylan, 1981-1999 | Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.) | Columbine High School Massacre, Littleton, Colo., 1999 | School shootings -- Colorado -- Littleton | Mothers -- Colorado -- Littleton -- BiographyDDC classification: 373.09788/82 LOC classification: LB3013.33.C6 | K55 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty- four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. She chronicles her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible, shedding light on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty- four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. She chronicles her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible, shedding light on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

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