This is like no other book I've read--about gun control or anything else. Unexpected, poetic, it gives voice to the mix of fear, rage, shame, and guilty passivity so many Americans feel from a distance about gun violence. Her experience in South Africa presents a clearheaded alternative way of confronting both a brutal history and brutality in the present, contrasted with America's heart of darkness. -Eve Fairbanks, author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, winner of the 2023 PEN John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for Nonfiction.

Megan Doney has written a clear-eyed, devastating indictment of our nation's failure to elevate communal safety above brutal self-interest. With heart-breaking honesty and compassion, she manages to balance despondency and hope alongside stubborn endurance in the face of our nation's tolerance for the intolerable. -Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University and author of Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense