Story of a Gun

I thought the Story of a Gun piece Jenny posted was well-written. It brought a lot of meaning and context to what I formerly understood as a simple weapon. At the LAC last night author Peter Ho Davies read a story about a professor's experience in trying to understand a student who shot his father and himself. In the story, the professor goes to a gun range to try and figure out what the student might have been thinking. I thought Davies' reading was really engaging because of its multi-faceted layering techniques that played to multiple emotions and senses. He used sounds, smells, physical descriptions and more to bring the reader/listener inside the story and onto the scene.