Kent State by Deborah Wiles

Different voices. Different perspectives.

Like a dissonant Greek chorus, the voices in Deborah Wiles’ work of YA historical fiction, Kent State, rage and argue in poetic free verse as they narrate the events surrounding the Kent State University shootings of May 4, 1970. Using a range of fonts to differentiate speakers, Wiles employs the voices of multiple college students (including a member of the Black United Students group), of townspeople, and of the National Guard to convey the confusion that led to the killing of four students and the wounding of nine others when the Ohio National Guard converged on the campus that fateful weekend. In her telling, Wiles weaves in a sense of the chaos of the era, the varying attitudes toward war and civil disobedience, the ongoing civil rights issues, and the fragile nature of history with its faulty memories and competing narratives. Wiles even inserts the reader into the story, probing the reader to define how such tragedies will be kept and remembered as time marches forward.

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