The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy
It’s a stale cliché to call this country “hopelessly divided,” true as it may be. Thankfully, that’s one of Sexton’s few missteps in this book. Through dogged reporting and clear prose, The Lost Sons of Omaha elevates a made-for-social-media tragedy into a kaleidoscopic account of race, justice and urban politics, the legacy of our forever wars and the flaws of our legal system ... A searing reminder that reality can’t be reduced to a hashtag or a sound bite; it’s messy, unpredictable and resistant to easy answers.
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Sexton has crafted a meticulously researched and briskly written account that deftly weaves the influences of racial injustice, economic disparity, incendiary social media and guns. It’s hard to read Lost Sons though and not feel an overwhelming sadness — not just for the loss of Scurlock and Gardner but for an America that seems to have lost its moorings — failing to embrace the multi-ethnic society that we are, succumbing to fiction presented as truth and regarding guns as our ultimate settlement.
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Sexton does exemplary journalistic work not just in digging up the facts and interviewing family members and eyewitnesses, but also in exposing how the whirlwind of opinionating works against finding the truth on all sides.
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