From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of the mother’s loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of the way the nation’s gun laws put a deadly target on American lives.

Lucia Kay McBath knew deep down a bullet could one day take her kid. After all, she had watched the news headlines of countless unarmed dark men unjustly gunned down.

Standing Our Ground: Putting Faith in God Over Beliefs in about Position Our Floor: The Triumph of Beliefs Over Gun Assault: A Mother’s Tale Guns is usually McBath’s memoir of increasing, loving, and shedding her boy to gun assault, and the tale of how she changed her discomfort into activism. After seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot by a guy who thought the music playing on his car stereo system was too loud, the nation grieved just as before for the needless loss of lifestyle. Here, McBath goes beyond the timeline and the assailant’s defense—Stand Your Floor—to present an emotional account of her fervent combat for justice, and her awakening to a cause that will drive the others of her times.

But a lot more than McBath’s story or that of her kid, Standing Our Ground keenly observes the sociable and political progression of America’s gun culture. A must-read for anyone worried about gun safety in the us, it harkens back again to such bestsellers as The Brief and Tragic Existence of Robert Tranquility and Nobody.