A mother's reckoning: living in the aftermath of tragedy

Introduction / Andrew Solomon --

Part I: The last people on earth. "There's been a shooting at Columbine High School" --

Slivers of glass --

Someone else's life --

A resting place --

Premonition --

Boyhood --

One mother to another --

A place of sorrow --

Life with grief --

The end of denial --

Part II: Toward understanding. The depths of his despair --

Fateful dynamic --

Pathway to suicide: Dylan's junior year --

Pathway to violence: Dylan's senior year --

Collateral damage --

A new awareness --

Judgment --

The wrong question --

Conclusion: Knowable folds.