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02762aam a22003738i 4500 001 1F6809B4CE1011E9A2D8154D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190903010024 008 190225s2019 meu d 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019007250 020 $a 1432866362 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781432866365 (hardcover : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il 082 00 $a 303.6083509773/11 $2 23 100 1 $a Kotlowitz, Alex. 245 13 $a An American summer : $h [large print] / $b love and death in Chicago / $c by Alex Kotlowitz. 264 1 $a Waterville : $b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c [2019] 300 $a 467 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Originally published: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019] 520 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Youth and violence $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 650 0 $a Violent crimes $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 650 0 $a Victims of violent crime $z Chicago. $z Chicago. 650 0 $a African American youth $z Chicago $z Chicago $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Chicago $z Chicago $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 $a Large type books. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20190903010123.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1F6809B4CE1011E9A2D8154D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search