How long will I cry?
Subtitle: voices of youth violence
By: Miles Harvey, editor [and eight other editors] ; [foreword by Alex Kotlowitz]
Contributors: Big Shoulders Books; DePaul University
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Big Shoulders Books, DePaul University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781628901559
Subjects: Youth; Youth and violence; Crimes against; Juvenile delinquency; Juvenile literature; Violence in adolescence; Case studies
Description: "In 2011 and 2012, while more than 900 people were being murdered on the streets of Chicago, creative-writing students from DePaul University fanned out all over the city to interview people whose lives have been changed by the bloodshed. The result is How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence, an extraordinary and eye-opening work of oral history. Told by real people in their own words, the stories in How Long Will I Cry? are at turns harrowing, heartbreaking and full of hope."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Resource Guide & Study Guide included.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- by Miles Harvey; title: Foreword  -- Alex Kotlowitz; title: Love without condition  -- T-awannda Piper; title: My life was worth a few guns  -- Jaime Miranda; title: why should I harass people for standing on the corner?  -- Harlon Keith Moss Jr.; title: Four bullets  -- John McCullough; title: My son Lazarus  -- Pamela Hester-Jones; title: What the watchman saw  -- Pastor Corey Brooks; title: Don't trust nobody  -- Ora Thompson; title: Met the juju-man  -- Julian; title: Like walking through Baghdad  -- Deshon McKnight; title: God, are you trying to get my attention?  -- Jorge Roque; title: A message for stupid people  -- Reggie; title: Defending the goners  -- Kulmeet Galhotra; title: The whole world stopped  -- Audrey Wright; title: Death is contagious  -- Max Cerda; title: Unanswered prayers  -- Pamela Montgomery-Bosley; title: A twig in a tornado  -- Timothy Clark; title: Everything about me is tainted  -- Maria Hernandez; title: What's one bullet?  -- Ernie Purnell; title: You live by it, you die by it  -- Latoya Williams; title: Tomorrow is not promised  -- Charlie Brown; title: The dream club's chief dreamer  -- Judge Colleen F. Sheehan; title: Trying the break the cycle  -- Kim; title: The girl was a fighter  -- Cristina Figueroa; title: Where in this community does it say we care?  -- Diane Latiker; title: Hell broke loose  -- Hyinth Davis; title: I only work here  -- Thomas McMahon; title: The walk home  -- Juan PItts and Esther PItts; title: When a bullet enters the body  -- Dr. Nancy L. Jones; title: Both feet out  -- Benjamin "Benny" Estrada; title: How dare I be happy  -- Tu-Tu; title: Home was the three of us  -- Jeff Maldonado Sr.; title: The funeral home lady  -- Cathlene Johnson; title: The scar tells a story  -- Daisy Camacho; title: How do you learn to live again?  -- Joy McCormack; title: Take a risk  -- Frankie Valencia; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Resource guide --; title: Study guide --; title: About the editors.