A Safeway in Arizona, Tom Zoellner
A Safeway in Arizona, Tom Zoellner
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A Safeway in Arizona
What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us about the Grand Canyon State and Life in America

Author: Tom Zoellner

Narrator: William Hughes

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2011

Synopsis

A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootingsOn January 8, 2011, twentytwoyearold Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet and greet held by US representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and thirteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head. Awardwinning author and fifthgeneration Arizonan Tom Zoellner, a longtime friend of Giffords and a field organizer on her congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumpingoff point to expose the fault lines in Arizonas political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen: the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing markets boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration.Zoellner offers a revealing portrait of the southwestern state at a critical moment in historyand as a symbol of the nations discontents and uncertainties. Ultimately, it is his rallying cry for a saner, more civil way of life.

About Tom Zoellner

Tom Zoellner is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books, the politics editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, an associate professor of English at Chapman University, and a visiting professor of English at Dartmouth College. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Men's Health, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other places. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from The Lannan Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kimba on June 07, 2017

If you are looking for a book that centers on the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen other people at the Safeway in Tucson, Arizona on January 8, 2011, this is not the book for you. It is not a true crime story, unless of course you consider the transformations taking place in contemporary......more

Goodreads review by Bridget on August 14, 2012

In the spring of 2009, Jeremy and I met author Tom Zoellner at the Tucson Festival of Books. We discussed his The Heartless Stone, as well as Arizona, Mormonism, and, briefly, Under the Banner of Heaven. We talked about that book's slant on Mormonism and how Krakauer argued a relationship between a......more

Goodreads review by Alice on August 13, 2012

This was an interesting read and close to the heart. Like the author, I was raised in Northwest Tucson only blocks from the Toscana Village Safeway. My experiences growing up in Tucson, however, are not ones of social isolation. On the contrary, our family found much needed connections in Tucson, es......more

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on November 17, 2012

The aftermath of an all too frequent scenario – mass slaughter by a lone gunman – is always the question, “Why?”. Tom Zoellner has done a thorough job of exploring this question in the case of the events of January 8, 2011 which left 6 people dead and Gabrielle Giffords, representative of the 8th Co......more

Goodreads review by Todd on April 04, 2012

Anyone who has kept up with the news these last few years knows that Arizona has repeatedly made itself the butt of a running series of bad and often tragic jokes. It is a state that is among the least educated (7th from the bottom in terms of adults with a college education), where politicians are......more

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