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Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge is a nonfiction book about the bombings that took place during the Boston Marathon in 2013. Authors, Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, interviewed first responders, witnesses, survivors, family members of those who lost their loved ones, and public officials when writing Boston Strong as a way for them to have more realistic and personalized stories. Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy includes many Boston-based accounts of the day of the bombing, events leading up to the attack, and investigations after the tragedy. Many personal experiences and stories help bring the book to life and recall the crisis, along with helping educate the reader on an attack that panicked the citizens of Boston.
On April 15, 2013, terrorists tried to destroy a beloved tradition in Boston, Massachusetts. Two homemade bombs denoted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. The bombs were created by brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The day of the bombing, they looked as if they were ordinary Bostonian citizens ready to watch their loved ones cross the finish line, but little did anyone know that the nylon backpacks they had on the back were homemade bombs. The devices were filled with ball bearings, …show more content…
The bombings had traumatic emotional, social, physical, and psychological effects on the citizens of the society, and using witnesses and personal experiences help engage the reader and allow them to know the truth of the terror and the resilience one city can have through a credible

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