During the apex of many incidents of mass violence, those involved could not be more intimately connected: a woman encounters her childhood sweetheart as a killer, a child soils his clothes with the blood of relatives, families that lived side by side peacefully for generations are persuaded to turn on one another, a dominant group persecutes and drives out their politically marginalized neighbors. Lives ended or overturned become defined by that violence as much as those wielding its tools-and all suffer the wounds"--