A review by hnells
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This was a really moving look into the March for Our Lives movement that arose after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. I liked Cullen's book on Columbine, so I decided to read this one as well and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was far more about the students building a movement than it was about the actual shooting itself. I really appreciated Cullen's inside perspective on the intricacies and difficulties of building a national movement as (mostly) high-school-age kids, and I found myself tearing up more than once at the enormity of what they were able to accomplish in the wake of their collective trauma.