Mini Review: Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely
4****
I am heartily sick of hearing about a different mass shooting what seems like every other day, and frankly, disgusted by the self-aggrandizing media and apathetic political response. Gun violence should be this country's greatest source of shame, but it has been normalized in a way that sickens me, and doubtless so many others. This graphic novel captures some of the pain those who survive such a horrific event endure, even when the eye of the country has turned away. While the book itself was not necessarily the best I've read on the subject, it was moving and made me really consider how much attention is given to the perpetrator, versus the victims and their friends and families. Something has to change, but my ope that it will is beginning to falter, I'm sad to say.
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