Why did you write the book from multiple viewpoints?

Part of what is intriguing and challenging about the news coverage that follows a controversial shooting is the uncertainty. Everyone—including members of the media—takes the limited fact act are available and creates a narrative about the incident that makes sense to him or her. The controversy deepens when those narratives conflict—when people have different opinions about what really happened. It is hard to know what really did happen in many of these cases, and it is always impossible to know exactly what was going on in a person’s head when he or she made the choice to pick up a gun and what led him or her to pull the trigger. It was intriguing to me to explore how not just one person but a whole community might respond to a controversial shooting that occurred in their own backyard. I thought it would be harder to explore the nuances of this type of controversy if I wrote from only one viewpoint.