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Introduction
by Andrew Solomon xi
Preface xix
Part I The Last People on Earth
Chapter 1 "There's Been a Shooting at Columbine High School" 3
Chapter 2 Slivers of Glass 18
Chapter 3 Someone Else's Life 32
Chapter 4 A Resting Place 49
Chapter 5 Premonition 52
Chapter 6 Boyhood 57
Chapter 7 One Mother to Another 81
Chapter 8 A Place of Sorrow 106
Chapter 9 Life with Grief 108
Chapter 10 The End of Denial 125
Part II Toward Understanding
Chapter 11 The Depths of His Despair 151
Chapter 12 Fateful Dynamic 165
Chapter 13 Pathway to Suicide: Dylan's Junior Year 173
Chapter 14 Pathway to Violence: Dylan's Senior Year 207
Chapter 15 Collateral Damage 239
Chapter 16 A New Awareness 242
Chapter 17 Judgment 255
Chapter 18 The Wrong Question 268
Conclusion: Knowable Folds 279
Acknowledgments 281
Notes 285
Resources 293
Index 297