num_pages: 267
description: On an average day in America seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America 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 facea childs faceon 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.
language: English
title: Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
publisher: Bold Type Books