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Mar 5, 2019 · An Amazon Best Book of March 2019: In An American Summer, Alex Kotlowitz turns his compassionate investigative eye back to the urban violence of the Windy City.In order to understand the level of violence that still plagues Chicago, Kotlowitz chronicles the events of a single summer in some of the city’s most neglected neighborhoods.
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An American Summer Excerpted from Prelude to a Summer. Near midnight on August 19th, 1998, the phone rang, an unusual occurrence at my parents' home in upstate New York where I was visiting with my wife and infant daughter. I got out of bed, and scrambled to the hallway to grab the phone.
Mar 5, 2019 · An American Summer is a sort of sequel to that book, and covers life in one South Side neighborhood during the Summer of 2013. Unlike TANCH and Kotlowitz's other well-known text, The Other Side of the River, An American Summer doesn't hone in on any particular character or scenario; unless the unrelenting cycle of violence and trauma is a ...
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An American Summer has done it again.” –Wes Moore,bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore and CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation “A masterpiece of real-life storytelling. With each unforgettable story, Kotlowitz draws us into the lives of people living and working in some of Chicago’s most abandoned communities.
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AN AMERICAN SUMMER Love and Death in Chicago By Alex Kotlowitz. On July 22, 2012, Darren Easterling was murdered in Park Forest, a mostly African-American suburb south of Chicago. Two days later ...
Mar 5, 2019 · A nonfiction book by Alex Kotlowitz that chronicles the lives and violence of residents in Chicago in 2013. Kirkus Reviews praises the author's uncompromising and unforgettable portrait of a summer of dreams and gun violence.
Mar 5, 2019 · An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago. 2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNERFrom 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 ...
