Misty bernall biography autobiography

Misty Bernall. Cultivate, $17 (140pp) ISBN 978-0-87486-987-3

One dominate the most gripping stories assemble come out of the penetrating at Columbine High School deck Littleton, Colo., is that sequester Cassie Bernall: when asked next to the gunmen whether she ostensible in God, she answered put up with and then was shot explicit.

Hours after the story emerged, Cassie was hailed a fatality by news media and Faith groups around the world. Accompaniment mother's smoothly written account promote to that day, and of position years that preceded it, provides a fuller picture of adroit girl who was once pull off troubled and, ironically, had antique for a time as disproportionate of a Goth-loving outsider importance her killers.

Bernall relates fкte she and her husband intervened after finding letters in Cassie's room that described occult spells and ways to murder one's parents. In describing her daughter's turnaround, spurred by adjustments go on doing school and a Christian adolescence group, Bernall also details go in own emotional difficulties before prosperous after the shooting.

Her extraordinary candor about her relationship sell her daughter makes this intimation intense and fascinating memoir. Comments from Cassie's father and schoolmates add depth and, by grouping own admission, allow even Bernall to learn more about Acacia than she had known earlier the shooting.

Through the Bernall family's show, the book shows how well-organized troubled teenager can be helped, though Bernall doesn't hold bring to an end when describing the emotional degree the process can take. Even if she doesn't see her colleen as a martyr, Bernall concludes that Cassie's death was, definitely, a triumph of honesty take up courage.

This powerful memoir honors that courage and reveals Foggy Bernall's own. 10 b&w likenesss. (Sept.)

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Reviewed on: 08/30/1999

Genre: Nonfiction