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The quiet damage : QAnon and the destruction of the American family / Jesselyn Cook.
"The riveting story of QAnon's devastating impact on the American family, grappling with the seductive allure of disinformation, the trauma it causes, and how we might set ourselves free"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593443255 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xx, 250 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Painting a portrait of American suffering, and the vulnerabilities that have left people susceptible to outrageous theories, a celebrated reporter tells the heartbreaking stories of five representative families from couples young and old to rural white parents to urban Black siblings who have been devastated by QAnon. - Baker & Taylor
"The riveting story of QAnon's devastating impact on the American family, grappling with the seductive allure of disinformation, the trauma it causes, and how we might set ourselves free"-- - Random House, Inc.
The âgrippingâ (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.
âExcellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.ââMichelle Goldberg, The New York Times
âSHED MY DNAâ: three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life. QAnon beliefs and adjacent conspiracy theories have had devastating political consequences as theyâve exploded in popularity. Whatâs often overlooked is the lasting havoc they wreak on our society at its most basic and intimate levelâthe family.Â
In The Quiet Damage, celebrated reporter Jesselyn Cook paints a harrowing portrait of the vulnerabilities that have left so many of us susceptible to outrageous falsehoods promising order, purpose, and control. Braided throughout are the stories of five American families: an elderly couple whose fifty-year romance takes a heartbreaking turn; millennial sisters of color who grew up in dire povertyâone to become a BLM activist, the other, a hardcore conspiracy theorist pulling her little boy down the rabbit hole with her; a Bay Area hippie-type and her business-executive fiancé, who must decide whether to stay with her as she turns into a stranger before his eyes; evangelical parents whose simple life in a sleepy suburb spirals into delusion-fueled chaos; and a rural mother-son duo who, after carrying each other through unspeakable tragedy, stop speaking at all as ludicrous untruths shatter a bond long thought unbreakable.
Charting the arc of each believerâs path from their first intersection with conspiracy theories to the depths of their cultish conviction, toâin some casesâtheir rejection of disinformation and the mending of fractured relationships, Cook offers a rare, intimate look into the psychology of how and why ordinary people come to believe the unbelievable. Profound, brilliantly researched, and beautifully written, The Quiet Damage lays bare how we have been taken hostage by grifters peddling lies built on false hopeâand how we might release our loved ones, and ourselves, from their grasp.
