Another Day in the Death of America …is exactingly argued, fluidly written and extremely upsetting. This is your country on guns. A book like this has potential pitfalls, highhandedness not least among them. But Mr. Younge…makes for a personable, unusual narrator. As a Briton, he brings a fresh perspective to this topic. As a father and a man of Barbadian descent, his interest in it is also personal. "I had skin in the game," he writes. "Black skin in a game where the odds were stacked against it."
The New York Times - Jennifer Senior
08/01/2016
"...a powerful and necessary accounting of one of the deadliest epidemics ever to sweep across America-and a call to action to do something about gun violence. Younge's writing is chilling, urgent and profound; his reportage deeply personalizes the victims, making them come alive through the memories of those who knew them during their short lives." —The Root —Library Journal , Starred Review—Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review—Shelf Awareness , Starred Review—Irvine Welsh , author of Trainspotting Another Day in the Death of America is the kind of book that instantly changes you. There's no way to walk away from these ten stories of children who were all victims of gun violence on the same day and not feel the heat of anger and despair about the gun culture that creates a seemingly inescapable cycle of violence in America. Gary Younge trains his considerable talents on one day, that could have been any of our bullet and blood filled days, and sketches the lives of the real people who suffer so much for our inability to act. We need to know them." —Mychal Denzel Smith , author of Invisible Man Got The Whole World Watching —New York Times —The Economist Another Day is political writing at its best." —Oprah Magazine —New York Times Sunday Book Review —Boston Globe —Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times —The Guardian —Financial Times —The Atlantic —The Spectator (UK) —Entertainment Weekly —The Guardian —Naomi Klein , author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine 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. 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. 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 —Martin Amis —Publishers Weekly —Library Journal , Starred Review—Booklist —Chicago Tribune Chris Serres, Minneapolis Star Tribune Peter Swanson, author of The Kind Worth Killing Another Day in the Death of America is a book everyone would wish didn't have to be written. That Gary Younge, one of the very finest journalists we have, has drawn from one specific, random day in our country the deaths perpetuated by gunfire - given it human dimension and tragedy - makes this vital, urgent necessary book one to read and pay heed to. This brave book, in its place as witness, looks our gun sickness straight in the eye to pose the question, do any lives matter?"—Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company Another Day in the Death of America is that rarest of things: a truly necessary book. Younge's compassion, as much as his willingness to look this perpetual tragedy in the face, sets the book apart from much of the writing about our disastrous obsession with guns. I found it utterly heartbreaking and urgent. I want everyone to read this."—Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books
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