YA historical fiction loosely based on the Waco Siege?
Oh yeah, count me in.
After the Fire is told in alternating time lines, simply Before and After the fire.
The whole book is told through the eyes of Moonbeam, a seventeen year old survivor. She, and a handful of other child survivors regularly attend therapy to work through everything that went down at The Lord's Legion. They have one on one sessions with their psychiatrists and supervised social interactions with their Brothers and Sisters.
Moonbeam feels partially responsible for all the death her Brothers and Sisters witnessed, all the lives that will forever be altered, all the kids without parents, and it's all her fault. But she plans on keeping that secret close to her heart for a long time. But those secrets will eventually weigh her down. She just needs a little bit of faith and a good bit of trust.
Obviously the therapy takes place during the chapters titled After. Whereas Moon's firsthand account of what happened at the base is told during the Before chapters. Both coincide very nicely with each other. I was a bit skeptical, but the flow of these chapters were almost like following Moon's train of thought.
In Will Hill's Author's Note, he makes the comment that many YA readers have probably never heard of the Waco Siege that left 82 Branch Davidian members dead, as well as 4 law enforcement agents. This attack went on for nearly three months. I highly encourage anyone who does not know about Waco to look into the horrors both parties felt as fire was opened on their own people.
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