A heartbreaking novel that offers no easy answers, Give a Boy a Gun addresses the growing problem of school violence. Although it is a work of fiction, it could tragically be the leading nightly news story in any community. After a high school shooting at her alma mater, a college journalism student returns home to interview students, teachers, parents, and friends of the suspects. Intermingled with her interviews are journal entries written by the two troubled boys responsible for the shooting. Their journals chronicle years of systematic abuse at the hands of their classmates and follow the boys' frustration and pain as they turn to rage. Give a Boy a Gun explores every angle and raises tough questions about peer bullying, gun control and accountability. A full cast of narrators' voices add a dramatic reality to this provocative work.
Julia
30.7.2020
No, I won’t read any further, just because it’s hard to get through and difficult to gather the important information to understand the story just out of quotes. Maybe I‘ll start reading it again some other time and maybe then the concept will speak to me. But I’m really not into it right now, despite the importance of the theme and my motivation reading the book.