The I Index

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Top of the pile

78

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

96/100

Critics

61/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jesselyn Cook

Publisher:

Crown

Date:

July 23, 2024

Reporter Jesselyn Cook paints a portrait of the vulnerabilities that have left so many of us susceptible to outrageous falsehoods promising order, purpose, and control.

What The Reviewers Say

Jonathan Russell Clark,
The Washington Post
Assiduously researched and impeccably constructed.
Roxanna Asgarian,
The New York Times Book Review
What’s missing in The Quiet Damage is a concise account of QAnon to orient the reader.
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic
Cook illuminates vividly the experience of loving someone in crisis—a crisis you can’t fully understand and definitely didn’t anticipate—and the impossible question of how long to stand by them.
Anna Christensen Spydell,
BookPage
Thoughtful and nuanced.