A review by sara_shocks
How to Be Safe by Tom McAllister

4.0

You'd expect a book about why school shootings are so awful would be dark, and this is, but it's also a little bit funny (maybe a lot funny) and it's angry and unafraid of its subject. The structure was unusual—fragmentary, shifting between narration styles—but it works really well here for conveying the sort of cyclical nature of trauma responses.