Gone at 3:17 - The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History | |
 Gone at 3:17 will appeal to the broad market of readers of narrative history that includes books such as Isaac’s Storm, by Erik Larson, The Johnstown Flood, by David McCullough, and Timothy Egan’s books The Worst Hard Time and The Big Burn. At its heart, the work is a classical tragedy, yet this story is rooted in workaday lives such as the morning ritual of sending children off to school. Parents wave good-bye as the school bus departs, suppressing the nagging fear of what lurks out of sight with their trust in the institutions of a civilized society. This is a true story of what occurs when the trustees fail to realize, or fully comprehend, the potential for catastrophe inherent in the invisible and odorless fumes of natural gas. The heartbreak—children lost, a great educator gone mad—is tempered by redemption and forgiveness.
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