First published in The New Yorker, âSolomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read itâitâs moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There arenât any answers. And thatâs what makes this all so impossible, and Solomonâs journalism so essentialâ (Salon.com).
âBoth parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their childâs horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanzaâs story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killerâand reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violenceâ (Time).