An American summer: love and death in Chicago

✍ Scribed by Kotlowitz, Alex

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 193 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Chicago (Ill.), Illinois--Chicago.
• ISBN: 1984841181

✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods**.**
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 community? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing of individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity—and the breaking point—of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles 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 twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he's done; a devoted school social worker struggling with...
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✦ Subjects

Illinois -- Chicago