Publisher's Synopsis
On June 17, 2015, 12 members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. Two days later, some relatives of the dead stood at Roof's hearing and said they forgave him. That grace offered the country a hopeful ending to an awful story. But for the survivors and victims' families, the journey had just begun. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes provides the definitive account of the tragedy's aftermath.
