![]() When the story begins, we meet a series of young adults: a waiter in a popular chain restaurant, an assistant manager of a video game store, an associate working at a jewelry kiosk, and a group of high school students visiting the movie theater together. These incidents are such a common occurrence that they don’t seem all that shocking to see on the news anymore, making this story feel both realistic and extremely relevant. I don’t want to get political and I’m not interested in a debate–this isn’t the venue for that–but I think one of the reasons Shelter in Place made me so emotional at times was the “this could happen anywhere, this could happen to my loved ones” feeling I got in the pit of my stomach while listening to this story. I read an article a few months ago that said there had been 288 schools shootings in the US since 2009–a figure that doesn’t the shootings at concerts, movie theaters, shopping centers. ![]() ![]() Ward’s Children or Wrath would make you feel things, all of the things? So will Nora Roberts’ Shelter in Place. ![]()
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