Summary of A Mother's Reckoning: by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis

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Summary of A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis

 

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In her memoir A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles

to come to terms with her son Dylan’s role in

• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: Apr 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683780410

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Summary

In her memoir A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan’s role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan—and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs.

Klebold’s story begins with the voicemail that changed her life. At lunchtime on April 20, 1999, in her office in Littleton, Colorado, she listened to a cryptic message from her husband, Tom. Though she intuited that something had happened to one of their two children, she had no way of knowing that Dylan was already a murderer.

Returning Tom’s call, she had what would be the first of many vague and unsatisfying conversations that day. Her husband knew there had been a shooting at Columbine, Dylan’s high school, but little else. Most of his information came from Nate, a friend of Dylan’s who had called the house to check in. Nate knew there were two shooters dressed in coats like the one Dylan wore. He also reported that he hadn’t seen Dylan or another friend, Eric Harris, in bowling class that morning. As Klebold drove home from work, a few thoughts stood out. One was the impossibility that Dylan could have a