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Alys’s whole world was comprised of the history project that was due, her upcoming violin audition, being held tightly in the arms of her boyfriend, Ben, and laughing with her best friend, Delilah. At least it was—until she found herself on the wrong end of a shotgun in the school library. Her suburban high school had become one of those places you hear about on the news—a place where some disaffected youth decided to end it all and take as many of his teachers and classmates with him as he could. Except, in this story, that youth was Alys’s own brother, Luke. He killed fifteen others and himself, but spared her—though she’ll never know why.
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Alys’s downward spiral begins instantly, and there seems to be no bottom. A heartbreaking and beautifully told story.
- Sales Rank: #770872 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.56" h x 1.13" w x 5.96" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 10 Up—Lunchtime will never be the same. What sounded like cherry bombs, were actually gunshots exploding throughout the halls of Plainewood High School where Alys Aronson and her brother, Luke, were students. A violinist in the making, Alys was trying to master a piece by Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, while her classmate Miranda studied for a history test nearby, when Luke entered with a rifle in hand. After witnessing her brother kill Miranda, Alys tries to come terms with the terrible event in this gripping narrative. In between the unbearable grief and feelings of being ostracized by her friends and the community, the teen learns to accept herself as someone more than the sister of a murderer. Readers will dive into each page as the author unfolds just what drove Luke to make such a horrible decision, even after being accepted to one of the top schools in the country. A captivating portrait of a family torn apart by jealousy and neglect.—Keisha Miller, South Orange Public Library, NJ
Review
Praise for SILENT ALARM:
“Wow, what a book. One has to admire Jennifer Banash for attempting a task as difficult and wrenching as telling the story of a school shooting from the point of view of the shooter’s sister. Grim and gripping from the very first sentence, Banash leads the reader through a valiant effort to find the answer to the horribly unanswerable, and yet convincingly manages to end with a note of hope.”—Todd Strasser, author of Give a Boy a Gun
“A lyrical portrait… Readers seeking empathy behind the headlines will find it here.”—BCCB
“A moving, insightful treatment of a difficult and timely topic.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A captivating portrait of a family torn apart by jealousy and neglect.”—School Library Journal
“A comprehensive, truthful, and uncompromising book, an important addition to any library serving teens.”—VOYA, perfect score
“This wrenching novel gets all of the emotional beats right.”—Booklist
“Readers will connect to Alys’ struggles. The story addresses many of the questions and emotions teens may have when learning about real-life tragedies.”—SLC
About the Author
Jennifer Banash lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful, painful novel
By Paige
See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten! My copy was a hardcover I got for review from YA Books Central.
Stories of school shootings and other general tragedies are strangely fascinating despite the morbid nature of them. I guess I’m just weird. How else are multiple books written and multiple documentaries made trying to help us understand how the Columbine massacre happened? When high school students commit that kind of violence, people want to understand what was going on in their minds. Fictionalized novels of such crimes are bound to follow as another attempt to understand. Silent Alarm is a solid novel, but it never gets to the heart of the issue.
The prologue in which the shooting goes down and Alys stares down the barrel of the gun held by her own older brother is a chilling scene no one will forget any time soon. It made me tear up personally because of how close I came to being Alys and my brother being Luke once upon a time, but it’s a startling sort of scene that stands strong on its own even without any personal connection.
The subsequent fallout, Alys’s family’s exile from their community as they’re blamed for what Luke did before he killed himself, and the implosion of their family is painful to read at times, especially when it comes time to bury Luke. If you’re looking for something to make you emotional and possibly even make you cry, Silent Alarm is a good bet. It never got me quite to the point of flat-out sobbing, but the misty eyes struck me more than a few times (see: everything about Alys’s prom, which has my heart aching just thinking about it).
Still, it doesn’t hit as hard as it should considering everything Alys is going through. She clearly has a case of PTSD as shown by her hallucinations of Luke and her friend Miranda plus her flashbacks, but she gets no treatment for it whatsoever and it goes away on its own. It’s a rather irresponsible, disrespectful way to write about a mental illness that affects millions of people for reasons ranging from rape to war to shootings just like this one. Banash never digs into the meat of why Luke did it either. We read these novels to try and see exactly that but get no answers here. It’s a bit frustrating. Some shooters like Adam Lanza leave behind no traces of why the way Luke does, but then shooters like Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris and Seung-Hui Cho and Elliott Rodger do. They’re the majority here.
For all its flaws, Banash’s sophomore novel is reminiscent of Jennifer Brown’s YA novels like Hate List in the best possible ways–and that’s not something I say lightly as a huge fan of Hate List. Fans of Jennifer Brown and other hard-hitting contemporary writers will find a beautiful, painful novel in Silent Alarm.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A tough subject and a thought provoking read
By misplaced cajun
Alys Aronson's life is forever changed when her brother, Luke, shoots and kills fifteen people.
Alys was in the library when the gunshots started and though she'll never know why, her brother did decide to spare her that day. But in the aftermath of that terrible tragedy, and even though Luke took his own life the day of the shooting, Alys and her family become the focus of the town's frustration and misery. What's worse, Alys will never be able to understand why her brother did what he did that horrible morning.
SILENT ALARM was a tough read. Jennifer Banash forces the reader to take a step back and consider the immediate families of the perpetrators of these incidents. It's a hard thing to consider - that even when the killer is gone the family themselves, while also grieving, are not only the focus of investigations but public scrutiny and contempt as well. And reconciling the emotions attached to the loss of loved ones and the anger against the person responsible without also including the immediate family is understandably hard for anyone in these events. Were they in any way responsible? What did they know? Could they have prevented the whole thing?
In this situation, there seem to be no real extenuating circumstances: Alys and Luke's parents are normal parents and their family an average one. Alys admits that they'd all seen a change in Luke, but nothing that would obviously point to such a tragic end. In fact, the harder she tries to look for an explanation the more out of reach it seems to become. Even worse, Alys feels guilty for grieving the loss of her brother - the brother who was always there for her, helping and supporting her for over a decade. The brother who murdered her classmates. That this person is one and the same is almost impossible for Alys to comprehend.
The subject of SILENT ALARM isn't an easy one to approach - either for a reader or, I believe, for a writer, but I though Banash did a great job. She humanizes the family and the killer. She makes the reader consider the way mass shootings affect everyone. And she forces you to consider that at least sometimes there is no explanation, that sometimes there is no one to blame once the killer is gone, and that in those cases the killer's family are also victims.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling, heartbreaking, flawed
By Pink Amy
Grade: C+
Shots are fired in a high school. Alys stares down the barrel of a gun, realizing the shoes of the gunman belong to her brother, Luke. Though he spares her life, he kills fifteen before ending his own life. Instantly, Alys and her family become pariahs. Her boyfriend drops her as does her lifelong best friend. And she's hallucinating Luke and one of his victims, whose death she witnessed.
Jennifer Banash's gorgeous prose set the scenes for plots and subplots in a ways that brought me right into the setting, like an invisible observer. I love first person POVs, but in this case the writing didn't feel like the words of a seventeen-year-old narrating the story so for me there was a disconnect. In some cases, like the beginning where the active shooting was taking place, I felt a lack of tension where I should have heard the sounds of my heart beating. As beautiful as Banash's writing, at times it didn't match the story.
Alys was a great heroine, suffering due to her brother's actions, yet not a victim. I felt her pain when her friends abandoned her, yet on some level could understand the minor characters punishing her because they couldn't rage at Luke. I'm shocked that nobody suggested the family seek therapy and that her parents didn't insisted on Alys, a witness to some of the carnage, at least talk to someone.
As Alys searched for answers, as we all do after inexplicable shootings, the more she learned, the less she understood. I appreciated the way her hallucinations were a tool for trying to make sense of the senseless, and how her guilt manifested in the victims' words in her mind.
The ending felt clich�d, rushed, not holding up to the rest of the story. I expected a degree of unresolution, because a shooting can't be figured out in a few short months, and the pain and memories would last a lifetime, but I still felt let down.
THEMES: family, friendship, violence, siblings, dating
SILENT ALARM is a flawed, well written, compelling story.
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