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Children Under Fire: An American Crisis

by John Woodrow Cox

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"It’s one thing to be told America’s gun violence epidemic is bad for kids. It’s quite another to let Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox take you inside the Olsen family as their 8-year-old daughter – who survived a school shooting – experiences a 34-minute violent fit of rage and self-loathing that requires her parents to restrain her and administer sedatives. Or to have Cox introduce you to a 9-year-old boy in Washington, D.C., who told his mom he wants to die so he can be reunited with his dad, who was fatally shot. Neither of these children was ever hit by a bullet, but that’s exactly the point."
NPR Books We Love — 2021 · apps.npr.org