Suspect is more than just a personal recollection— It is an examination of how people perceive mass shootings and the contagion effect. It is focused on when the author was suspected of wanting to shoot up her Vermont high school in the immediate aftermath of Columbine. She was not wholly innocent in the sense that she was an accomplice to a death threat. But mostly, the homicidal rumors about her spun from being creative. She was the only one dressing goth, and she had written a weird, rhyming story about sixth graders dying at a dance by a disco ball and other non-firearm weapons. Seamlessly blending memoir with investigative journalism, Suspect is a story of survival and social justice in black eyeliner.

“A thoughtful and fascinating portrait of bygone small town teenage life—specifically the era just before school shootings transformed from unthinkable tragedy to accepted banality. Through memories of bullying and navigating esoteric high school social structures, Tron details the psychological impact of the Columbine shooting on teens across the nation, capturing and investigating the strange mixture of revulsion and kinship many experienced in its aftermath”. — B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive.

“Suspect is an unflinching, sharp-edged, and smart as hell story of post-Columbine America. It walks the line between journalism and memoir, giving readers deeply personal insight into a teen’s life in a rural New England town, while interstitially providing factual and sourced information to give context. A unique and powerful book.” — Ann Dávila Cardinal, award-winning author of We Need No Wings

“Suspect is a total immersion into the angst, violence, and hysteria that captured the zeitgeist of the ’90s. Like the Neo-version of Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ Tron looks back at a troubled time in America with curiosity, when once she inadvertently became a town’s pariah. Rich in shock rock, spiked collars, and Mountain Dew, Tron’s memoir is a rich piece of the past we can’t stop revisiting and dare not ignore”— Jax Miller, author of Freedom’s Child and Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

“Gripping, incisive, and tender—I couldn’t put this book down. A masterful display of heart, wit, courage and grace.”—Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity Not Debt

"Gina Tron brings the detailed, clear-sighted wisdom of an expert journalist to her intensely personal new memoir, in which she explores the psyche of a well-meaning and overwhelmed teenager who’s been accused of plotting to harm her classmates with a lens that feels universal. We are all SUSPECT." — Meghan Joyce Tozer, M.M. Ph.D.,” author of Night, Forgotten, and UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir

"Teens only have two powers: the power to imagine, and the power to bully. Gina Tron wielded the first and faced the brunt of the second during the Columbine era. This harrowing memoir is a must-read for anyone who never fit, or who has ever been afraid and enraged."— Nick Mamatas, author of The Second Shooter.

“When I was a teenaged girl, I experienced the most intense few years of vile jealousy, hatred, and out-of-control scenarios that movies like Heathers and The Craft could barely scratch the surface on. To say that Tron evokes a brutally honest rendition of her own teenage years similar to these, where her struggles between herself and her mother, false friendships, and identity hunts, would be the ultimate understatement. Suspect is the story of a girl caught between adulthood—where the unsettling aspects of high school hell cut through all judgements. An emotionally jagged observation from both present, past, and future, Tron recounts and recognizes how adults fail us, friendships are twisted, and in the end, it’s our connections in the least likely of places that hold us together” —Hillary Leftwich, author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock and Aura

“Brutal in the story it tells, but empathetic and gracious in its delivery, Suspect is now one of my favorite books, and we're lucky it exists.”—Jay Halsey, author of Barely Half in an Awkward Line

“Gina Tron’s Suspect is a compelling and evocative exploration of the harsh realities of female adolescence, particularly for those of us who grew up feeling “othered” by our peers. True, not every unpopular teenage girl is accused of being a prospective school shooter or domestic terrorist–but the unwarranted scrutiny, suspicion, and ostracization that come with such an accusation are all-too-similar to the hell inflicted upon any teenage girl deemed a social outcast. In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Tron delves into her own unique and painful experiences to illustrate the universal struggle of young women navigating a world in which they are undervalued, unprotected, and denied the benefit of the doubt.”—Annie Singer, author and editor at Ladygunn