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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist sne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its youngAs in her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress.