The Reckoning: Searching for Meaning with the Father of the Sandy Hook Killer
May 2014 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s journalism so essential” (Salon.com).
“Both parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their child’s horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanza’s story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killer—and reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence” (Time).
“Both parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their child’s horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanza’s story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killer—and reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence” (Time).
First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s journalism...
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July 1, 2023
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About the author
Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and a professor of clinical medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and named one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century; The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change; A Stone Boat; and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. A former president of PEN America, Solomon is an activist in LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and the arts, and his TED talks have been viewed more than twenty-seven million times. He lives in New York and London. For more information, visit the author’s website at AndrewSolomon.com.
Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and a professor of clinical medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Cr...
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