Killers of the Flower Moon : Adapted for Young Readers

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon : Adapted for Young Readers (2023, Simon & Schuster, Limited)

English language

Published Dec. 2, 2023 by Simon & Schuster, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-3985-2848-2
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5 stars

This is a book about exposing a hidden chapter of history rather than building a single narrative. The focus is on research and analysis and showing the facts of this mass murder.

It's definitely not dry but it does mean the emotional weight of this book comes from learning what happened, not from a specific characters journey.

Extremely well researched, with broad analysis of the events of the Osage murders that provides horrifying breadth to the tragedy that occurred. David Grann also avoids sermonising, letting the facts and the history speak for itself. By the end every reader reaches their own conclusion about the psychology of a country with this kind of darkness in its history.

Glad I'm in Australia where this kind of racist cruelty never happened.