![]() ![]() By giving voices and faces to those touched by violence, Kotlowitz makes the reader bear witness in a way news headlines and academic studies cannot. The result is a crazy-quilt portrait of life in a city at war with itself. It is but one of the countless heartrending insights the author gleaned from interviews with some 200 crime victims and perpetrators, their loved ones, and observers of violence on the streets of Chicago in the summer of 2013. ![]() I’m afraid of living,” a resident of a halfway house on the West Side tells Alex Kotlowitz in his new book An American Summer. What I’m afraid of is losing my mother, of being in prison, of being a failure.
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