https://www.ssfarchive.org/files/original/82b86eda3978e623bc690dd1e7cb8621.jpg 54786c2ed61211880a3514b296000bf2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource School Shooting Fiction Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Quicksand Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Quicksand Subject The topic of the resource Book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Giolito Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-07-07 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wahlström and Widstrand Description An account of the resource "A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where a number of people were killed, including her boyfriend and her best friend. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door who was popular and excelled at school, become the most hated teenager in the country? What did Maja do? Or is it what she didn’t do that brought her here? As the trial proceeds, we flash back to the months leading up to the school shooting and learn about the turning point in Maja’s life: falling in love with Sebastian Fagerman, the son of Sweden’s richest business tycoon. Sebastian is dazzling but dangerous and Maja is drawn to him like a moth to a flame. As her relationship with Sebastian takes over her life, Maja increasingly loses touch with her parents and friends who fail to hear her silent calls for help. Behind an affluent community’s slick façade, racial and class tensions are rife, drugs proliferate, and adults are absent. As a young girl loses her footing, the adult world fails one of its promised daughters, and each and every one of us is quick to throw the first stone. Is Maja a cold-blooded murderer or is she just a girl who has lost her way, and now has also lost the ones she loved? The trial serves as a suspenseful framework for this gut-wrenching coming of age story that is utterly impossible to put down and in which we see the world entirely through Maja’s eyes. Her voice is quirky, snarky and wholly unique – we don’t always love Maja, but we love to be inside her head. In Maja Norberg, Malin Persson Giolito has created a darker Hazel Lancaster, a millennial Holden Caulfield, a young woman we both admire and despise and whose distinct voice and tragic circumstances are reminiscent of Ani in Luckiest Girl Alive." Summary from literary agency Ahlander Agency:  <a href="http://ahlanderagency.com/books/quicksand/">http://ahlanderagency.com/books/quicksand/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Book Language A language of the resource Swedish, translated to English by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Type The nature or genre of the resource Bildungsromans, Legal stories, Psychological fiction Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Reader reviews of Quicksand on Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30724110-quicksand?from_search=true&qid=RQMid3tJko&rank=1">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30724110-quicksand?from_search=true&qid=RQMid3tJko&rank=1</a>