Summary of A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis
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In her memoir A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles
to come to terms with her son Dylan’s role in the infamous
Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the
shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong
for Dylan—and how she and her husband, who were loving
parents, could have missed the warning signs.
Klebold’s story begins with the voicemail that changed
her life. At lunchtime on April 20, 1999, in her office in
Littleton, Colorado, she listened to a cryptic message from
her husband, Tom. Though she intuited that something
had happened to one of their two children, she had no
way of knowing that Dylan was already a murderer.
Returning Tom’s call, she had what would be the
first of many vague and unsatisfying conversations that
day. Her husband knew there had been a shooting at
Columbine, Dylan’s high school, but little else…
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