Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

Younge's book completes the picture of what violence looks like in contemporary America, and should be required reading for anyone naming themselves American.' -Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen 'Formidably intelligent and tenacious.

Drawn from suburbs and cities of every demographic, these sensitively researched portraits of virtually unknown victims and their grieving families expose the structural ties of race, class, and lack of gun control. A book to be read through tears.' -Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine 'Gary Younge's Another Day in the Death of America is a harrowing account of children's lives cut short by the ubiquity of violence in the United States. Brilliantly reported, quietly indignant and utterly gripping. ' nuance and context to a polarizing issue.The personal touches, however, are most affecting, as Younge pieces together each story from news reports and interviews with friends and family, weaving a tragic narrative of wasted potential.' -Publishers Weekly 'This is Gary Younge's masterwork: you will never read news reports about gun violence the same way again. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.

This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the collateral damage of gun deaths across the country. 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. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. Anthony Lukas Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award Finalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead.

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge