A review by lifepluspreston
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

5.0

The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook--I raced through this book, stopping at some discrete moments to tear up, sitting in a house I'm not wholly familiar with in McKinney, Texas. Cook follows men and women around the country caught in QAnon. Mercifully, Cook doesn't waste a lot of time explaining what QAnon is, instead providing masterfully concise primers in the stories themselves. This allows her to spend time taking in the toll that the movement has taken on human lives across the country. Spouses torn apart, friendships demolished, parents estranged from their children, and so on. This quiet, but real, damage is tough to engage with, but this is a wholly worthwhile book. Two thumbs up.