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Another Day in the Death of America

A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

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<b>Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize</b><b>Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award</b><b>Finalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism</b><b>Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction</b> On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In <i>Another Day in the Death of America</i>, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.

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Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge

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Pubblicato
2018
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Titolo
Another Day in the Death of America
Sottotitolo
A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2018
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
304
ISBN10
156858993X
ISBN13
9781568589930
Serie
Descrizione
<b>Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize</b><b>Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award</b><b>Finalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism</b><b>Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction</b> On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In <i>Another Day in the Death of America</i>, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.