![]() ![]() ![]() “Eddie did the unimaginable,” writes Kotlowitz. One example is Eddie Bocanegra, who killed a rival gang member as a teenager. In his latest powerful sociological exploration, the author masterfully captures the summer of 2013 in neglected Chicago neighborhoods, rendering intimate profiles of residents and the “very public” violence they face every day. Years later, the author received a call in the middle of the night and learned that Pharoah may have been involved in a murder. ![]() Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, 2004, etc.) published the modern classic There Are No Children Here (1991), which told the story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah and their experiences in one of Chicago’s violent housing projects. In 1991, Kotlowitz (Journalism/Northwestern Univ. A chronicle of dreams and gun violence one summer in the city of Chicago. ![]()
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