Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

This is a gorgeous and moving graphic novel. The shooting itself is not depicted–Kindra was on campus but not in the immediate vicinity of the shooter, so her experience was more of a chaotic “something's happening?” moment followed by the panic of evacuation and the grief of losing friends, followed by PTSD. I hate that so many people will find her experience immediately relatable, but even if you haven't directly survived a mass shooting I feel like just the act of existing in America can make a person feel adjacent to one.

Secondarily I think Kindra's path of going to community college and then arts school is something that older teens will like to read about–you don't HAVE to have it all figured out when you graduate high school! Most people don't!