An American summer : love and death in Chicago / Alex Kotlowitz.
2019
HQ799.2.V56 K68 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
An American summer : love and death in Chicago / Alex Kotlowitz.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780385538800 (hardcover)
0385538804 (hardcover)
0385538804 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019]
Language
English
Description
x, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HQ799.2.V56 K68 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.150835/0977311
Summary
"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.
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Table of Contents
Prelude to a summer
May 4: The tightrope, a story in four parts
May 12: Mother's Day
May 23: A conversation: the OGs
May 31: The tightrope, part two
June 13: The tweets
June 16: Father's Day
June 24: The witnesses, part one
July 5: The (annotated) eulogy
July 8: I ain't going nowhere, part one
July 14: Going home
July 17: Day of atonement
July 25: The two Geralds
August 15: The tightrope, part three
August 17: Artifacts
August 22: I ain't going nowhere, part two
August 24: This is what he remembers
August 29: The disco tour
August 31: The witnesses, part two
September 8: The tightrope, part four
September 19: False endings.
May 4: The tightrope, a story in four parts
May 12: Mother's Day
May 23: A conversation: the OGs
May 31: The tightrope, part two
June 13: The tweets
June 16: Father's Day
June 24: The witnesses, part one
July 5: The (annotated) eulogy
July 8: I ain't going nowhere, part one
July 14: Going home
July 17: Day of atonement
July 25: The two Geralds
August 15: The tightrope, part three
August 17: Artifacts
August 22: I ain't going nowhere, part two
August 24: This is what he remembers
August 29: The disco tour
August 31: The witnesses, part two
September 8: The tightrope, part four
September 19: False endings.