Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Nonfiction,True Accounts
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Details
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.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 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.— Washington Post, Best Memoirs of 2016
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Reviews
Les faits nous les connaissons dj. Tout ce qui se passe avant et bien entendu aprs est ici narr par la mre d'un des tueurs de Columbine. Et c'est un rcit poignant que celui de Mme Klebold qui explique que malgr que son enfant soit un tueur (ce qu'elle ne nie absolument pas), c'est aussi son enfant et elle exprime avant tout sa peine et sa dtresse de l'avoir elle aussi, perdu lors de cette tuerie. Aprs le choc de la nouvelle, la honte, l'incomprhension, la rclusion, elle remonte le fils de sa vie pour tenter d'expliquer en quoi peut-tre son role de mre pu jouer un role dans le geste de son fils. Mais rien n'explique l'acte prmdit de son enfant. Au fil du rcit, elle va creuser et creuser encore et part la rencontre de psychiatres, psychologues, neurologistes et analyse peu peu l'attitude, la dynamique et l'tat d'esprit dans lequel son fils se trouvait au l'aube du massacre.C'est un rcit poignant et nous devrions tous lire ce livre car il permet de raliser que quoi que nous fassions en tant que mre et quelle que soit la faon dont nous duquons nos enfants, nous ne passons outre le fait que leur caractre, leurs motions, leur psychisme, peuvent changer la donne et cela sans signes avant-coureurs.
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