A Mother's Reckoning Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy

Sue Klebold 지음

Ebury Publishing 2016년 02월 15일 출간

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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and 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 and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And 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 and 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 and writings that Dylan left behind, and on countless interviews with mental health experts.Filled with hard-won wisdom and compassion, A Mother？？s Reckoning is a powerful and haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time. And with fresh wounds from the recent Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent.All author profits from the book will be donated to research and to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues.

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"Should be required reading for parents of adolescents ... a book of nobility and importance"

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저자(글) Sue Klebold

1999년 13명의 사망자와 24명의 부상자를 낸 콜럼바인 총기 난사 사건의 가해자 두 명 중 한 명인 딜런 클리볼드의 엄마. 딜런 클리볼드는 총격 후 자살했다. 대학에서 장애인 학생들을 가르쳤고 지역 활동에도 활발히 참여했던 평범한 엄마였다. 현재는 우울증 조기 발견 및 자살 예방에 관환 활동을 적극적으로 펼치고 있다.