An American summer : love and death in Chicago

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Label

An American summer : love and death in Chicago

Title remainder

love and death in Chicago

Statement of responsibility

by Alex Kotlowitz

Title variation

Love and death in Chicago

Creator

• Kotlowitz, Alex

Author

• Kotlowitz, Alex

Subject

• Illinois -- Chicago
• Youth and violence
• African American youth -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• 2000-2099
• Social history
• Large type books
• Violent crimes -- Illinois | Chicago
• Victims of violent crimes -- Illinois | Chicago
• Large type books
• Violent crimes
• Youth and violence -- Illinois | Chicago
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century

Language

eng

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 community? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about 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 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 piercingly honest portrait of a city in turmoil. These sketches of those left standing will get into your bones. This one summer will stay with you

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 364.150835/09773/11
• 303.6083509773/11

Index

no index present

LC call number

HQ799.2.V56

LC item number

K68 2019b

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction