The Quiet Damage, Jesselyn Cook

 

The Quiet Damage:  QAnon and the destruction of the American family by Jesselyn Cook

Started: November 3, 2024
Completed: November 7, 2024
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: My wife

Review:

Sometimes you need particular examples to better understand the whole problem.  This book fills that void.  Cook has done a great job of talking with individuals on both sides of QAnon (believers and those who love the believers).  This provides a perspective into how people started to follow Q so quickly and also how they got out.  Meanwhile, the examples provided covered the range fairly well of how family members reacted.  Calling for mental health and some way for children to deal with difficulty being caught in schools is undoubtedly the correct answer.  In the current environment, however, it is hard to imagine this will happen any time soon.