An American summer : love and death in Chicago
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
364.1508 KOTLOWI
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364.1508 KOTLOWI
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Victims of crimes -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Violent crimes -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Youth and violence -- Illinois -- Chicago.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Victims of crimes -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Violent crimes -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Youth and violence -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Published
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 287 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"The numbers are staggering: Over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and communities? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing of those who have emerged from the violence and whose stories reveal the capacity--and the breaking point--of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate stories that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and who, twenty years later, is still trying to come to terms with what he did; a devoted school social worker smuggling with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends. Applying the close-up, empathic reporting that made There Are No Children Here a modern classic, Kotlowitz offers a tenderhearted yet piercingly honest testament to the strength of the human spirit. These sketches of those left standing will get in your bones. This one summer will stay with you."--Dust jacket.