Household, Health & Ba

Archival Summary & Scope

"If I Don’t Make It, I Love You." This haunting text, sent from a student in a Parkland, Florida, school during a mass shooting, embodies the raw fear and love at the heart of this collection. *If I Don’t Make It, I Love You* gathers over sixty harrowing narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders. Spanning fifty years of shootings in America—from 1966's UT-Austin Tower to 2018's Santa Fe—this anthology, edited by Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman, offers an urgent platform for the voices of those directly affected. A vital contribution to the national dialogue on gun reform.

Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner, 2020.
"An important and horrifyingly thick anthology...we must not look away." —Kirkus Reviews