Neither is “Parkland” about the killer, whom the author refuses to name. This week marks the first anniversary of the South Florida bloodshed that took 17 lives, so it’s not a book about the distant past. When he finds himself standing inside a “spontaneous memorial” in a local park, “A wave of sadness knocked me to my knees, and all I could feel was Columbine.”Ĭullen has written “Parkland” for the kids, the victims and survivors of the mass shooting on Valentine’s Day, 2018. He’s the author of “Columbine” (2009), a decade-long project about that school shooting that left him reeling from “secondary traumatic stress, or vicarious traumatization.” Understandably, he’s apprehensive arriving in Parkland in the days after the killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Dave Cullen is no stranger to the labyrinth of grief.
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