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GHETTOSIDE
A True Story of Race and Murder
Since 2007, Jill has transformed her decade of reporting and research into a nonfiction masterpiece. While it may be about race and murder in the United States (and LA, in particular) this is a book and a story that will be moving and meaningful to any constituency.
Award-winning LA Times journalist Jill Leovy spent more than ten years on the homicide beat in South Central for the LA Times. The people she met there weren’t much different from the white suburbanites she grew up with and she couldn’t understand why black Americans could suffer such extraordinarily high homicide rates. It was the most baffling thing she’d encountered as a reporter – and yet, all around her, it was treated as a commonplace. As if the fact that black people die more from homicide was barely worth wondering about. And so she set out to understand the reason.
The book follows the form of a conventional police procedural. It isn’t one, but it looks like one. Its heart is its original research and thesis, and the cop story is a vehicle to present those. The murder of one young man in particular forms the narrative of GHETTOSIDE, the son of a high ranking black American detective. His case is the exception which proves the rule that most of these murders are never solved, prompting a cycle of violence all too easy for the rest of us to ignore. “Readers will come to understand the dynamics of homicide from the vantage of real victims, perpetrators, witnesses, police officers, paramedics, surgeons, journalists, and young me just trying to stay alive.”
THE HOMICIDE REPORT is not an academic book, nor is it a political screed, it is an intensely reported journalistic take that will force readers to see race and murder through new eyes. In the vein of GANGLEADER FOR A DAY, RANDOM FAMILY and BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS.
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Published 2015-01-27 by Spiegel & Grau |