I haven't read his other stuff, although I'm told I should! I think I was just disappointed because the book flap indicated that it was about a married couple teaching at Columbine High School the day of the shooting rampage, and I was really looking forward to reading about that. Although it's mentioned throughout the book and certainly plays a large role in the main characters' personalities, it's definitely not about that, per se. I was expecting more of the book to be about Columbine and their experiences in particular, and not the ancestry that it focuses on for a large part of the book.