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At Close Range : A Memoir of Tragedy and Advocacy, Paperback / softback Book

At Close Range : A Memoir of Tragedy and Advocacy Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to write At Close Range.

Her debut memoir is the story of what happened after her son Jon died in a freak gun accident at a party.

Ross unsparingly shares the complexities of grief as it ripples through the generations of her family, then chronicles how the loss of Jon has sparked a new life for her as a prominent advocate for gun safety. Before the accident, Ross never had a motivation to consider the role that guns played in her life.

Now, she revisits ways in which guns became a part of everyday life for her three sons and their friends.

Ross's attitude towards guns is thorny. She has collectors and hunters in her family. To balance her advocacy, she joined both Moms Demand Action and the NRA. Through At Close Range, the national conversation about gun control plays out in one family's catalyzing moment and its aftermath.

However, At Close Range ultimately shows one mother's effort to create meaning from tragedy and find a universally reasonable position and focal point: gun safety and responsible ownership.

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