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Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Another Day in the Death of America A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives Author:Gary Younge On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead.In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day—November 23, 2013. Ten children died that day. From Jaiden Dixon, nine, shot point-blank by his mother?s ex-boyfrie... more »nd on his doorstep in suburban Ohio, to Tyshon Anderson, an eighteen-year-old gang member who?d recently been released from prison on Chicago?s South Side; from a rural hamlet in Michigan to the deindustrialised streets of Newark, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the stories behind the statistics and brief mentions in local papers.
This powerful and moving work puts a human face—a child?s face—on the “collateral damage? of gun violence at a time when the gun issue in America is being hotly debated. 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 portrait of youth and family in America today.« less