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Reader reviewed by Dede

This story revolves around a community when they are hardest hit. Peter, who one day walks into school and changes everyone's life in 19 minutes of shooting, killing and wounding. His mother Lacy struggles to make sense of the sweet son she remembers through the years and the monster who would do what he did. Josie, Peter's one time friend before she became popular, who was not shot even though her boyfriend Matt was fatally shot. Josie's mother is a judge with a strong sense of justice that makes this book even more heartbreaking. Jodi Picoult writes with such passion, I was crying before I was even halfway through the book. It makes you wonder what if, it is one of those rare books who make you want to make the most out of life because it IS precious and you never know when something will damage it.