54 Minuten by Marieke Nijkamp

Over the course of fifty-four minutes a high school is plunged into a lockdown when a shooter arrives, and the story follows multiple students and staff trapped inside as they cope with fear, make impossible choices, and reveal the tangled histories and relationships that led to the violence; told in alternating perspectives and a tight real-time timeline, it’s a tense, emotionally raw exploration of trauma, blame, survival, and the reverberating aftermath beyond the school walls.

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