The diagnosis closes her questioning down. A Mother’s Reckoning is a sincere gesture in sharing and I thought Sue Klebold shared some very important information, messages and insight to living in the aftermath of tragedy. Even she understands how difficult it is for people to accept that sometimes parents don't know that their child is planning to do something terrible, and that if the child does do something terrible, that the terrible act is not always the result of poor parenting. It would be easy to admire Sue Klebold for her courage in writing a Mother’s Reckoning. “HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW?? Sue Klebold has the insurmountable task of penning this piece and trying not to get lost in the accusations surrounding the pall left by her son. Klebold is honest and heartbreaking. (She actually calls it brain health and brain illness throughout her book, for a very smart reason. • To order A Mother’s Reckoning for £12.99 (RRP £16.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. ~, “The ultimate message of this book is terrifying: you may not know your own children, and, worse yet, your children may be unknowable to you. A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold had me glued to the pages from the start, except for when I had to leave it to get a box of Kleenex. I read this book because a friend of mine suggested it. Welcome back. Even she has asked herself the same question hundreds and hundreds of time. She also spends much of the book suggesting that all parents should be extremely vigilant about any signs of depression in their children and teenagers because Dylan had done a very good job of concealing his true state of mind right up to the date of the shootings. 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. I read it with great interest and curiosity. The troubling, bestselling memoir is a search for understanding and a confessional, as well as an account of catastrophe and grief, Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 15.15 GMT. Crown. And if the bombs they planted had gone off it would have been much worse. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. She did so many things right by writing this book. But having listened for the past few weeks to the audio version of Klebold’s book with rapt attention and a knotted stomach, I think it is probably more accurate to thank Klebold for openly sharing part of her journey in dealing with her son Dylan’s participation in the Columbine shootings. They are also a victim. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. I give Klebold much credit for writing this book and for putting herself out here where many will continue to ridicule her, hold her in contempt or just full out not believe what she has to say. Just like most mothers, her desire when she started her family was to raise thoughtful, moral human beings. Review: A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSIONS REGARDING SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, VIOLENCE, MENTAL HEALTH I was a bit nervous going into this book and I’m not sure exactly what I expected, but I certainly didn’t expect a well-written book that made me feel more empathy for the family, especially the mother, of one of the Columbine shooters than I ever … Who reads the audio version? Searching for answers, both in their own lives and that of their younger son, the Klebolds faced vilification over something they said they could not have predicted. I'm giving it a 3.5 just in terms of the writing, readability and narrative flow but I am in no position to review the veracity of what happened here. It includes information on the recorded basement tape video made by Eric and Dylan as well as documented statements from their diaries and Sue's own journal. How does a mother or a father miss the signs of impending doom, the stockpiled weapons? On hearing there was a shooting at Columbine, she prayed her son was safe. Along with her personal devastation, she was grief-stricken for the victims, their families, and the community. I was fascinated, horrified, sickened, and heartbroken in turns while I read, but mostly heartbroken – for Sue as a mother, for the memories of her lost child, and for the pain she and her family have had to live with for the last seventeen years. Sue Klebold's life as she knew it ended abruptly on that day 17 years ago when she not only lost her son, but was left behind to piece together a puzzle that could never be completed. “So?” he says. (This is an important message, but it certainly needs to be tempered with the realization that the vast majority of teenagers are not at risk of doing what Dylan did, or even of suicide.) Meanwhile she was asking herself the same question: should she – could she – have seen it coming? 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. Anxiety, sensory overload, shaking, scratching, crying, dark thoughts and an overwhelming need to hurt myself and control the pain. To read it is to be unforgettably drawn into the devastation she endured: on the day of the attacks, Tom told her he was going to try to get into the school, and she tells him he could be killed. And with fresh wounds from the Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent. Instead of becoming paralyzed by her grief and remorse, she has become a passionate and effective agent working tirelessly to advance mental health awareness and intervention. It is definitely worth the read and changed my perspective on the parents of. She has spent the last 15 years excavating every detail of her family life, and trying to understand the crucial intersection between mental health problems and violence. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. There is no way we can expect her to have anticipated Columbine, especially as there was little precedent for it – she had the bad luck to be mother to a depressed teen whose anger intersected with Harris’s incipient psychopathy in a spectacularly toxic manner. Beneath the surface of any teenager's emotional expressions can be found torrential angst and calls for help. What kind of parent are you? There’s no question that Klebold’s story is horrifying—a story of mass murder and its aftermath that blessed few of us will ever have to tell. A Mother’s Reckoning is compelling as a grief memoir. A Mother’s Reckoning – Review by Lee. Anyway, again I don't blame her or her husband but frankly I got really bored with reading antecdotes about smart precocious funny Dylan. This book was a huge undertaking. This book deserves a more eloquent review than I can muster this late in the evening. Klebold is brave to try to tell her story. Mental refers to something intangible, and some experts believe that if we change the terminology from ment. [On this week’s Inside The New York Times Book Review podcast, Sue Klebold discusses “A Mother’s Reckoning.”]. This book is Klebold’s attempt to tell her story: the story of their family life, their parenting, and the complete and utter lack of signs leading up to. To say "I really liked it" is not accurate; but I am so very glad that I read this book (huge thank you to Dave Cullen for the recommendation). I was not a mother when Columbine happened. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy is a 2016 memoir by Sue Klebold, the mother of Dylan Klebold.Along with Eric Harris, Dylan was one of the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. I knew a little about the Columbine tragedy and felt lucky to read this with an open mind. I live here in Littleton and knew people involved in the tragedy. The book begins on the day of the Columbine High School Massacre, and ends on the same day; except by the end Sue mentions all the things that she missed and would have done differently had she known about mental health issues. In the wake of epic tragedy, how does a parent come to terms with their child murdering other children and adults? Implicitly, and perhaps inevitably, the memoir raises important questions it fails to answer. I agree with those who have said it gives one a renewed sense of purpose. In this account, Klebold also takes full responsibility for missing the signs that Dylan was depressed and in trouble admitting he did in fact show outward signals of suicide that she dismissed not recognizing them for what they were at the time, but now understands after consulting with numerous mental health experts. The book details the childhood and teenage years of her son, and what she says are signs she missed that Dylan was suffering from clinical depression. I give Klebold much credit for writing this book and for putting herself out here where many will continue to ridicule her, hold her in contempt or just full out not believe what she has to say. 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. Review: A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold. When the Columbine massacre occurred in April of 1999, I recall judging the parents. Columbine High School shooting. Later, they make a pact not to kill themselves, so hard is surviving. She wants to get it right. In April 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris attacked Columbine High School in one of the largest school massacres in the US – setting a pattern for many that would follow. I am a suicide survivor. When we hear about the actions of murderers we always think to ourselves: "How could they've done that? It was heartbreaking. Over the years, after a long time researching the Columbine case, I'd learned to view Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris as human beings. Final Note: Author profits from this book will be donated to research and charitable foundations focusing on mental health issues. Review A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy. It was obviously extremely important for her to write this book, and admirably she is giving all profits to mental health research. We joined those friends in praying as they left notes on her mailbox, etc. ", Excellent follow-up story to COLUMBINE, but a very sad and terribly heartbreaking read. !” asked one of the many letters Sue received. Ever. In the dazed aftermath, stories abounded: the killers were goths, were bullied, were part of a terrifying “trenchcoat mafia”. A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy is a hard but important look at the life of Dylan Klebold, and the legacy he left for parents Sue and Tom, and brother Byron. The Klebolds and Harrises were vilified, abused and sued. Her book is titled, “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy,” and in it she chronicles the day of April 20, 1999 and the weeks following based on her journals. I can't find that info here. While it would be crass to choose any reading group that might 'like' this book, its insightful nature might prove useful to those who remember the Columbine shooting as they wrestle to better understand the chaos of that day. Sue Klebold is a very strong woman, I don't know how she got through all of this. If a true crime audiobook is your idea of the perfect listen, then this post is for you. After all, there had to have been some extremely obvious signs for their sons to be able to do something like this. Over and over again, these are questions that Klebold has heard and continues to hear. I finished this audiobook more than two weeks ago and I still really don't know how to review it. It is so heartbreaking. The minute he told me about it I put it on hold! Yet we persist in believing (it would be hopeless not to) that, once they arrive, we will in some deep way. And yet there are many places in the book where it’s hard to believe she couldn’t see past the face Dylan was presenting. Worse if the child’s death is a suicide. The narrative arc takes us from denial to anger to acceptance and some kind of comprehension. “By telling my story as faithfully as possible,” Klebold writes, “even when it is unflattering to me, I hope to shine a light that will help other parents see past the faces their children present”. She lost him twice: his actions that day meant the son she thought she had known was a fiction. Addressing teen suicide and the inner turmoil that Dylan faced, Sue is blunt in her message to parents: do not ignore anything that seems out of place. And part of my understanding at least a piece of this puzzle, I thought, was reading about the perspective of the woman who had raised Dylan. Klebold bears not only her soul in her writing of A Mother's Reckoning, but also her failures as a parent that often are only evident in hindsight. Pain and suffering seems to envelop people, but there are many more feelings and emotions that layer themselves within the larger narrative of grief. See all 10 questions about A Mother's Reckoning…, 2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (Feb 14 - Apr 30, 2020), A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy / Sue Klebold. And with fresh wounds from the Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent. But amongst the more trivial things in this book—like Klebold's excellent writing for someone who doesn't do this professionally—I think what stands out most is Klebold's optimism and faith that we. Dylan Kleb. Worse yet, if the suicide is preceded by mass murder. Out of the worst tragedies there surely sprouts some specks light and hope. But having listened for the past few weeks to the audio version of Klebold’s book with rapt attention and a knotted stomach, I think it is probably more accurate to thank Klebold for openly sharing part of her journey in dealing with her son Dylan’s participation in the Columbine shootings. Book Review ‘A Mother’s Reckoning’ doesn’t dig deep enough. I was not a mother when Columbine happened. Yet we persist in believing (it would be hopeless not to) that, once they arrive, we will in some deep way know our children, even as we grasp that parts of them will remain a mystery to us. We’d love your help. Book: A Mother's Reckoning: Living In the Aftermath of Tragedy Author: Sue Klebold On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve students and a teacher at Columbine High School. April 20, 1999 – Columbine High School – Littleton, Colorado. But at times this made Klebold’s book particularly painful. 4 stars. "While every other mother in Littleton was praying that their child was safe, I had to pray that mine would die before he hurt anyone else.". Not only they lost a loved one if this is a murder-suicide situation, they don't get any sympathy from people for their loss. Sigh, where to start. What was done can probably never be fully explained. In addition, there were death threats, copious hate mail, unending questions, unfathomable guilt, endless lawsuits and public scrutiny. He stockpiled assault weapons and murdered five of his peers during an extended rampage. Perhaps the most unnerving thing about having a child is that you don’t know in advance who he or she or “they” will turn out to be. Summary (from Goodreads): On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. She dove into motherhood and did her best to mother with intent and purpose. Sue Klebold's narrative is extremely difficult to relate to and empathize with. That seems to be the premise of this book and makes it the ideal choice for the buddy with whom I chose to read this. Sue takes us from, denial to acceptance and then to some kind of comprehension of her life and the part of the tragedy committed by her son. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold Published by Crown on February 15, 2016 Genres: Non-Fiction, Memoir, True Crime Goodreads | Buy on Book Depository. I finished this audiobook more than two weeks ago and I still really don't know how to review it. This self-conception, it would seem, kept her from looking deeply at what Dylan was actually doing. However we never get any insight as to why he tipped o. I actually started listening to this in the summer. The first section is devoted largely to her early memories of Dylan, a “loving” and “affectionate” boy with a halo of blond hair: “He was easy to raise, a pleasure to be with, a child who had always made us proud.” But she also remembers that he didn’t like to be teased or to fail, and “his humiliation sometimes turned to anger”. It was nearly impossible not to, considering I spent my time reading their journals, private online conversations, websites, jokes, accounts from friends and loved ones and teachers who liked and praised them as well as watching homemade videos they made for fun. I am not sure how you review something like this - a mother's recounting of a cherished son's life, the heinous act he commits and the aftermath of that act on her life and family. Let me start off by saying whenever one of these horrific events happens, I always feel so badly for the family because I know they are going to be blamed and that is not fair at all. How ought we to think about moral culpability in an age of psychiatric diagnoses? Review: A Mother’s Reckoning. On 20th April, 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went to school with the intention to kill. But then I picked up A Mother’s Reckoning. Even she understands how difficult it is for people to accept that sometimes parents don't know that their child is planning to do something terrible, and that if the child does do something terrible, that the terrible act is not always the result of poor parenting. Mental refers to something intangible, and some experts believe that if we change the terminology from mental health to brain health, because the brain is something tangible that we KNOW needs attention, it could help people be more open to truths of mental/brain illness). At high school, he became absorbed in video games after failing to make the baseball team. Yet Dylan carried out horrific murders, depressed or not. This book is heart wrenching and fascinating, but it very much feels like something Sue Klebold had to write for her own benefit, as part of her own healing process. “To the rest of the world, Dylan was a monster,” she writes, “but I had lost my child.”. A great deal of this memoir is written from the perspective of what actually happened in the Klebold family world from the time of awareness. She spends much of the book assuring her audience – and herself – that she was the best parent she could be. In structure, the book relives Sue’s search for answers, drawing on her journals, memories and the research she has done since Dylan’s death, interviewing experts in “law enforcement” as well as “psychiatry and neurobiology”. January 14, 2017 January 14, 2017 ~ wendopolis. Both come down to a kind of moral luck and accident of biology. Sue Klebold seeks not to want to gloss over events or spend the entire book seeking pity from the reader, but to offer her own perspective of events and how she was blindsided by many of the narrative from April 20, 1999. First, I want to deeply discredit reviews that state this book is nothing but a mother making excuses for her son. I think she does a tremendous job of expressing her experience of mourning, while paying due respect to the families of Dylan’s victims. $28. I give my thoughts on the book by Sue Klebold (mother of Dylan Klebold) 'A Mothers Reckoning. Disbelief turns to understanding as she finds herself recalling how Dylan became more sullen and withdrawn – behaviour she attributed to normal adolescent crabbiness. True crime has been enjoying something... On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. I have probably crossed paths with Sue a hundred times, maybe a thousand, but I don't know her. She has spent the last 15 years excavating every detail of her family life, and trying to understand the crucial intersection between mental health problems and violence. Having interviewed and spoken with countless professionals over the years, she shares in the second half of the book the studies and professional opinions that support a greater emphasis on understanding, removing the stigma around, and treating brain health issues. I only finished it recently. The saddest thing that can happen to a mother is to outlive her child. However we never get any insight as to why he tipped over the edge to commit mass murder. A Mother’s Reckoning is a sincere gesture in sharing and I thought Sue Klebold shared some very important information, messages and insight to living in the aftermath of tragedy. Sue Klebold's life as she knew it ended abruptly on that day 17 years ago when she not only lost her son, but was left behind to piece together a puzzle that could never be complet. to come to terms with her son Dylan’s role in the infamous. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, who—along with his friend Eric Harris—opened fire on fellow students at … A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy is written by Sue Klebold, mother of Dylan Klebold. Published by wendopolis. A Mother’s Reckoning, book review. How does a mother or a father miss the signs of impending doom, the stockpiled weapons? There’s no question that Klebold’s story is horrifying—a story of mass murder and its aftermath that blessed few of us will ever have to tell. The Christmas before the shooting he asked her to buy him a gun. Ever since I started the research, I knew I couldn't view them as monsters because it was far too simpl. A MOTHER'S RECKONING is a detailed and graphic account of the carefully planned massacre that occurred at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. March 11, 2016 Paige Reviews 0 ★★★★ A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold Published by Crown on February 15, 2016 Genres: Adult Nonfiction, Memoir Pages: 336 Format: eBook Source: Bought Goodreads Start by marking “A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy” as Want to Read: Error rating book. And she is condemned to a life in which some people will always try to reassure themselves that their child would never do what Dylan did by blaming his parents in their parenting and for failing to see what was coming – no matter what Klebold has to say. The early chapters offer a cogent narrative of the events of the day and the period that followed, a time in which Sue and her husband, Tom, were crippled with doubt and guilt for what Dylan had done. On a work trip, she meets a computer teacher who pointedly says: “When you’re a good parent, you just sort of know what your kids are up to.” Eventually, the couple are sued, go bankrupt and divorce. Pain and suffering seems to envelop people, but there are many more feelings and emotions that layer themselves within the larger narrative of grief. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters at Columbine High School in 1999 who killed 15 people before ending their own lives, a tragedy that saddened and galvanized the nation. I feel a lot of compassion for her. *heavy sigh* I'm exhausted. Over the years, after a long time researching the Columbine case, I'd learned to view Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris as human beings. I find these books very hard to review. Let me start off by saying whenever one of these horrific events happens, I always feel so badly for the family because I know they are going to be blamed and that is not fair at all. I had a bad night a week ago. This is a very painful book to read. Writing 16 years after the. First, I want to deeply discredit reviews that state this book is nothing but a mother making excuses for her son. But we never think about the killer's loved ones. Review: ‘A Mother’s Reckoning’ – Sue Klebold. I’m fairly sure that this is the longest book review that I have written, I have tried to cut it down but can’t, it seems that I have a lot to say about A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold and feel the need to say it! It is actually the exact opposite of that, and at times, almost has nothing to do with her son, but more of raising awareness on suicide and mental health. Later, when she heard that her son was involved, she found herself praying he would die. I believe Sue was very brave for writing this book and knowing that 100% of the profits goes to brain health and suicide prevention is an awesome gesture on her part. … Dylan and Sue Klebold, erhaps the most unnerving thing about having a child is that you don’t know in advance who he or she or “they” will turn out to be. This was a difficult book to read. And with fresh wounds from the Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent. (Having raised a son, I can attest that teenagers are often a difficult species to decode.). To see what your friends thought of this book, I agree with those who have said it gives one a renewed sense of purpose. These are probably questions for another book, but they are questions that linger. Summary of A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis Preview: In her memoir A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles. ... Posted in Uncategorized Book review mothers sons. She has written one of the most honest and gut-wrenching books I’ve read in a long time. by Crown, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy. It was nearly impossible not to, considering I spent my time reading their journals, private online conversations, websites, jokes, accounts from friends and loved ones and teachers who liked and praised them as well as watching homemade videos they made for fun. 305 pp. I have close friends that lived near the Klebold home. I believe this was partially because of the book I was reading. This is not to toss all the blame onto Harris, but Klebold posits throughout that her son's less aggressive nature surfaced in journal entries, recorded messages, and in footage of the actual school shooting. Her “sunshine boy” was a mass murderer. Why is Dylan’s violence a symptom of disease but not Eric’s psychopathy? This book was extremely difficult to read at times, and I can only imagine how hard it was for Klebold to write. Sue Klebold is Dylan’s mother. It took me three very long days to get through this book and I honestly wish that I did not read it. I was stunned when I saw the news that day but I can't recall ever considering how the mothers of the shooters might be feeling. This book is about Sue Klebold, Dylan's (one of the shooters) mother, who has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. Out of the worst tragedies there surely sprouts some specks light and hope. For the rest of us, her book provides a window into a special kind of hell – losing a child that the world views as a monster. More to come soon. Like Klebold, I wanted to hear the answers to these questions, and I eagerly awaited for her book to be published to see what she had to say and to see what we all could learn from it. I'm not sure how she survived. How many of us teach our children to monitor their own brain health, or know how to do it ourselves?”, http://amothersreckoning.com/books/a-mothers-reckoning-hc, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2016). Book Review: A Mother’s Reckoning. This is devastating. It was heartbreaking. Like other reviewers have said, this is a hard book to review. They had nothing to do with murders but people judge them and make their life a living hell. Had Sue and Tom Klebold delved deeper into Dylan's life as soon as they can issues, would Columbine have been averted? (She actually calls it brain health and brain illness throughout her book, for a very smart reason. Dylan Klebold was one of the Columbine High School shooters, a murder spree whose infamy only grew in the months after events, once much of the evidence and backstory emerged. I attend the church that planted 15 trees (including two for Dylan and Eric). A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold. Or, they were so disengaged in their lives they were just plain oblivious. A Mother’s Reckoning spends some time trying to come up with a solution to the rash of mass shootings, mulling the disastrous failure of our gun legislation. I'll never, ever again "assume" anything close to this kind of thinking or judge. A mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of tragedy by Sue Klebold Published: February 15th 2016 by Crown Genre: Nonfiction, memoir, biography, true crime Pages: 336 “To all who feel alone, hopeless, and desperate - even in the arms of those who love them.” Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed twelve students and… For now I will say that this broke my heart with it's bravery, honesty and compassion. But She persisted in thinking everything was OK, even though Dylan had been suspended from school and arrested for stealing, with Harris, electronic equipment from a parked van. 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