An American summer love and death in Chicago
"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...
| Main Author: | Kotlowitz, Alex (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.