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Nothing about this book is easy. It shouldn‘t be. The numbers are staggering—14,033 killed, approx 60,000 wounded by gunfire over a 20 year period in Chicago. Kotlowitz chronicles the violence from a single summer (2013) as he asks what that level of violence does to people & the city in which they live. Kotlowitz writes powerfully & with great compassion about the people he profiles, & about a seemingly intractable problem with no easy solutions.

I see this on a daily basis at school, but I have never seen it explained so accurately.

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