A review by scorebecca
If We Had Known by Elise Juska

5.0

Beautifully written, Juska's book tells the stories of people whose lives are affected by a mass shooting and centers primarily on the shooter's former writing teacher as she wrestles with whether an essay was as troubling as some students remember it. It is a hard read but a very, very good one.

Please don't let the length of time it took me to finish this book give you pause. The characters' circumstances made me so uncomfortable, so worried that I had to put the book down.