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~ Winner of the California Book Award for Nonfiction (Gold) - 2015, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism - 2016, Audie Award for Nonfiction - 20016, Ridenhour Book Prize - 2016, and the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction - 2016
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
A fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of murder in America: why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.
Both a snappy police procedural and a searing indictment of leagal neglect, Ghettoside is a powerful testimony to the lack of value America places on human life.
“A serious and kaleidoscopic achievement, Jill Leovy is a crisp writer with a keen mind and the ability to boil entire skies of information into hard journalistic rain." -- The New York Times