If We Had Known - Juska '95 L.L.Bean Published by Brandeis University Press

Published by Brandeis University Press in association with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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If We Had Known - Juska '95 L.L.Bean Published by Brandeis University PressBy Elise Juska, Class of '95 One August afternoon, as single mother Maggie Daley prepares to send her only child off to college, their world is shattered by news of a mass shooting at the local mall in rural Maine. As reports and updates about the tragedy begin to roll in, Maggie, an English professor, is further stunned to learn that the gunman had been a student of hers: Nathan Dugan was an awkward, complicated young man whose quiet presence in her