With 2026, we begin the third year of our online book club. We meet four times a year to discuss recent books about guns and gun culture.
Jooyoung Lee’s recently published The Walking Wounded: Festering and Ricocheting Trauma After Gun Violence will be the 10th book we read together. Please join us!
Registration link for the Zoom Webinar: https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g77OBULgRAaKIzC_ae9mQA
Register by noon Eastern time on Friday, April 24th to be entered into a drawing to win a free copy of the book!
THE WALKING WOUNDED
We will meet on three Wednesdays from 6:00 to 7:00 pm Eastern time beginning on May 6th and discuss the book in three parts:
*Wednesday, April 29th: Read Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 1
*Wednesday, May 13th: Read Chapters 2-4
*Wednesday, June 3rd: Read Chapters 5-6 and Appendix
Participate
The Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club runs as a Zoom webinar in which 12 panelists have full speaking privileges to discuss the book. Other registrants participate as viewers with written chat capability. The chat has been extremely active and informative in previous sessions. (To encourage candor, meetings are not recorded except the Q&A with the author with permission.)
If you’re interested in attending the Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club as a viewer, please register for the Zoom Webinar discussion: https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g77OBULgRAaKIzC_ae9mQA
Only registered attendees can join the meeting.
Buy the Book
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About the Book
From the publisher’s description:
A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems of care for wounded people.
In The Walking Wounded, Jooyoung Lee invites readers into the hospitals, courtrooms, and homes where gunshot victims struggle to rebuild their lives. Drawing from years of fieldwork in Philadelphia, Lee shows how victims’ injuries fester into new problems over time in the absence of meaningful follow-up care. Attempting routine tasks with a wounded body reminds survivors that they are no longer who they used to be—both physically and socially. Lee shows how trauma ricochets through victims’ worlds as their injuries also affect their family and friends. To make matters worse, Lee argues, existing government safety nets place victims into ever more precarious circumstances that compound their suffering.
In the face of health care and judicial systems that fail wounded people, Lee urges a sensible and sensitive rehabilitative process aimed at equipping the walking wounded with ongoing care that aspires for more than mere survival: the regaining of independent lives.
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