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Devastating story, but a fascinating read (and it always feels so weird to describe these real-life disaster books this way). But, they can be (and this one is) so compelling.

This book about a real fire in a Chicago Catholic school in 1958, in which 92 children died, had me ugly crying from the second page. I stayed in bed with that book the whole day, knowing if I put it down I would never touch it again. I cried so much I had a headache and hiccups. The authors made the story very real and very immersive, and I even know some people who were in this fire and escaped. #somethingforsept