An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

An American Summer is a heart-wrenching and deeply intimate portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.

Drawing on decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz chronicles one summer in the city, profiling individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity - and breaking point - of the human heart and soul.

The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America.

This book will get into your bones and stay with you long after you finish reading it.