Book Review: Grace From the Rubble: Two Father's Road to Reconciliation After the Oklahoma City Bombing by Jeanne Bishop

Grace From the Rubble: Two Fathers’ Road to Reconciliation After the Oklahoma City Bombing
by Jeanne Bishop (976.6 Bis)

This book walks you back through the events of the April 19, 1995 bombing and aftermath of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City through the eyes of two parents — the father of one of the victims and the father of Timothy McVeigh, the bomber. This is considered the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. history with the killing of 168 people including 19 children.

 

The author reiterates all the events of that day and the search for survivors, re-igniting all the feelings one had that day, so be prepared. We also follow the fathers as they reconcile how their children were part of that day.

I thought this would be the story of how the fathers met shortly after the bombing and how they came to recognize that each was a victim. Instead, the fathers didn’t meet until much later, and by then they each had reconciled their losses, and McVeigh’s father learned the other father did not blame him.

 

Overall, this was an interesting story of behind-the-scenes of two of the victims as they try to move on with their lives.

 

Recommended by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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