A review by bethmitcham
All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing by Nicole Xu, Chris Barton

4.0

This is a book about the Oklahoma City Bombing and the museum built to commemorate that event, but more it's a book about what happens to people affected by tragedies like that. The illustrations are carefully designed from colors to shapes to depictions to reflect the tone of the words, which describe the emotions of the people affected and the process of dealing with trauma. The metaphor of the seedlings grown from a tree at the bomb site help show how growth continues but at its own pace, sometimes slow. It's a quiet, meditative, often unbearably sad book.