No Hiding in Boise

My full review appears here: https://literaryquicksand.com/2021/06/review-no-hiding-in-boise-by-kim-hooper/

If the synopsis of this book makes it sound heavy, you're right — it deals with some pretty heavy subject matter. Yet, the book as a whole doesn't feel like this big, depressing, heavy thing.

This book isn't so much about the traumatic event itself. Instead, it's about the aftermath: the stuff we're much less likely to see on the news.

The story takes a deep dive into the lives of three women affected by the shooting. One of them was there, one of them is the shooter's mom, and one of them is wondering what the heck her injured husband was doing at a bar in the middle of the night when he was supposed to be in bed with her. Each one of them is affected in a different way, yet the happenings of that night start to bring them all together.

There's also a little undercurrent of mystery to this book. What was Angie's husband doing at that bar? Since he's too injured to speak up, Angie has to try to piece things together herself.

I don't really want to say a lot about this book, because I don't want to give anything away! I will say that I thought it was beautiful. I tend to love super realistic depictions of grief and trauma and broken people, because that's also when life (and books) can very unexpectedly be the most beautiful.