A review by abookishtype
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

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4.0

I’ve listened to the <i>QAA</i> podcast (formerly QAnon Anonymous) for years now. This podcast has always been my best source for at least knowing what QAnon and its companion conspiracies are. I can’t say that I <I>understand</i> people’s belief in QAnon but I am at least conversant in some of its tenets. My other source of information about QAnon is the heartbreaking subreddit forum, QAnon Casualties. In QAnon Casualties, people share their stories of family members, friends, and spouses becoming lost to conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking. They ask each other for advice—mostly about how to get their loved ones back—and find community. I’m glad I had both of these resources to lean on as I listened to Jesselyn Cook’s new book, <I>The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family</i>. This book is a deep dive into the human costs of belief in the QAnon conspiracies. Cook interviews members of five families to examine the cost of losing a relative to what seems, from the outside, an entirely different reality.

<I>Read the rest of my review at <a href="https://www.abookishtype.com/2024/08/22/the-quiet-damage-by-jesselyn-cook/">A Bookish Type</a>.</i>
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