A school shooting in America, a teenage murder in Australia, a mother who killed her children by driving into a dam, a son killed by a coward punch. 

It's not about lessons as these real-life tragic events are explored, it’s an interrogation of the stories we build around catastrophe. The “axioms” are the statements we reach for automatically: this happened because. This proves that. This means.

Tumarkin dismantles griefs packaging, and looks at how media stabilises horror into plot, how community seeks coherence where there may be none. The writing is exact, analytical, but never cold. I

It’s rigorous, uncomfortable, and deliberately resistant to closure.