If I don't make it, I love you survivors in the aftermath of school shootings
"A harrowing collection of sixty narratives--covering over fifty years of shootings in America--written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors. "If I Don't Make It, I Love You," a text sent from inside a war zone. A text meant for Stacy Crescitelli, wh...
| Other Authors: | Archer, Amye (Editor), Kleinman, Loren (Editor), Guttenberg, Fred (writer of foreword.) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Skyhorse Publishing,
[2019]
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| Summary: |
"A harrowing collection of sixty narratives--covering over fifty years of shootings in America--written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors. "If I Don't Make It, I Love You," a text sent from inside a war zone. A text meant for Stacy Crescitelli, whose 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, was hiding in a closet fearing for her life in Parkland, Florida, in February of 2018, while a gunman sprayed her school with bullets, killing her friends, teachers, and coaches. This scene has become too familiar. We see the images, the children with trauma on their faces leaving their school in ropes, connected to one another with hands on shoulders, shaking, crying, and screaming. We mourn the dead. We bury children. We demand change. But we are met with inaction. So, we move forward, sadder and more jaded. But what about those who cannot move on? These are their stories. If I Don't Make It, I Love You collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower shooting through May 2018's Santa Fe shooting. Through this collection, editors Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman offer a vital contribution to the surging national dialogue on gun reform by elevating the voices of those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors."--provided by publisher. This harrowing collection of narratives covers over fifty years of shootings in America. The were written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors. The title was a text meant for Stacy Crescitelli, whose 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, was hiding in a closet fearing for her life in Parkland, Florida, in February of 2018 while a gunman sprayed her school with bullets, killing her friends, teachers, and coaches. We mourn the dead, we bury children. We demand change, but are met with inaction. These are the stories of the survivors. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 494 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-494). |
| ISBN: |
9781510746497 1510746498 |
| Author Notes: |
Loren Kleinman's nonfiction has appeared in Ms. , The New York Times, The New York Daily News, the Huffington Post, Ploughshares, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Woman's Day, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, BUST, USA Today , The Rumpus and more. She is the editor of the anthology Indie Authors Naked , which was an Amazon Top 100 bestseller in Journalism in the UK and USA. Kleinman's The Dark Cave Between My Ribs was named one of the best poetry books of 2014 by Entropy Magazine . Her co-edited collection with Amye Archer My Body, My Words (Big Table Publishing), was named one of the "11 New Feminist Books That Could Totally Change Your Year" by Bustle . My Body, My Words also received praise from Hello Giggles, BUST, Pop Sugar, WOW! Women on Writing , The Brooklyn Rail and more. Her short film , Suffering Is the Easy Part , directed and produced by Jaime Ekkens, is distributed by Seed&Spark and Docademia. |