Another Day in the Death of America
A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
by Gary Younge
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Pub Date Oct 04 2016 | Archive Date Oct 04 2016
Perseus Books Group, PublicAffairs Books | Nation Books
Description
This powerful and moving work puts a human facea child’s faceon 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.
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781568589756 |
PRICE | $25.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
This is a very good and well written book about a uniquely American problem.
This book takes a random day in America, and examines the gun deaths of ten young men. The author goes about randomly picking a day and also randomly chooses a sample of ten young men to profile. In this book the author goes into depth of profiling each victim in who they were and the circumstances that lead up to their deaths. He also discusses the issue of gun control throughout the book.
Overall I rated this book four stars out of five. I really liked that the author being from the United Kingdom wrote this book. It added to this book a view from an outsider who is not living in the United States, without anything to gain. I also liked how the author randomly picked the day and the victims. He was able to add more meaning and significance to the ten lives lost due to gun violence. Without reading this book their lives and deaths would have never been known to the larger community that surrounds them. Even though you hear the numbers of how many people are dying each day by gun deaths, this book brings those numbers to life. No matter how you feel about gun control you should read this book.
I would like to thank Netgalley, Gary Younge, and Perseus Books Group for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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