Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

✍ Scribed by Younge, Gary

• Book ID: 109346738
• Publisher: Nation Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 937 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America , award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the powerful human stories behind the statistics.
Far from a dry account of gun policy in the United States or a polemic about the dangers of gun violence, the book is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind. Whether it's a father's...