![]() In An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, Alex Kotlowitz patiently takes the reader through the streets, neighborhoods and institutions that are both the cause and the result of ongoing violence. What we residents can rarely explain in those moments is the complicated backstory. Most of us are accustomed to it-the questions about "what it's like" here, and the unspoken assessment of a place seemingly steeped in violence, whether the historical kind of Al Capone and Prohibition-era gangsters, or the rampant gun violence people hear about today in the news. A searing account of the lives directly impacted by ongoing violence in Chicago, and an eyewitness ethnography of the neighborhoods where shootings are near constant.Īs a Chicagoan, I've become used to the most common reactions when I'm traveling and tell someone where I'm from. ![]()
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