The Hour I First Believed a Novel by Wally Lamb

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This is a new hardcover with dust jacket. Signed First Edition 2008 Harper Publishing. Crisp and clean inside and out. Signed edition specially bound by publisher.


When high school teacher Caelum and his wife Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Co. they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum is away and Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet expecting to be killed. Miraculously she survives. But there is a cost' she is unable to recover from the trauma. When the couples flee's to the family farm in Connecticut, they realize that chaos and trauma are not easily left behind and further tragedy ensues.

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