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Divided We Fall by Trent Reedy6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Reedy also shows the full effect of war we not only see the toll of the conflict on Danny and the other members of the National Guard, but Danny’s friends and family are drug into the conflict. Reedy expertly shows that the distance between lawful protest to civil war is very, very short. It can be easy for readers to envision wars as horrible acts that only occur on foreign soil, or worse, against people that are clearly the enemy. A number of civilians end up injured or dead, and the governments of Idaho and the United States quickly begin pointing fingers at each other. While performing crowd control during a protest over the issuance of federal ID cards, Danny’s gun discharges accidentally, erupting the protest in chaos. The novel features Private First Class Danny Wright, a high school senior that also serves in the Idaho Army National Guard. Others agree in a starred review, Publishers Weekly states, “… this cautionary tale screams immediacy and urgency, a page-turner that rapidly moves toward a catastrophic cliffhanger.” With all the political strife taking place in the county, it would be easy to mistake Trent Reedy’s first YA novel, Divided We Fall, as fact instead of fiction. ![]()
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