Alex Kotlowitz: 5 books
Never a City So Real
A Walk in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
“Chicago is a tale of two cities,” headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and diverging outlooks on the future of the city. Yet to keen observers of the Second City, this is nothing new. Those who truly know Chicago know that for...
by Alex Kotlowitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A selection from Alex Kotlowitz’s masterpiece of immersive reportage There Are No Children Here, the harrowing coming-of-age story of two children in Chicago’s Henry Horner Public Housing Complex. In “The Spelling Bee,” as Pharoah returns to school, his dreams come up against the realities...
The Other Side of the River
A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close,...
An American Summer
Love and Death in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded...
There Are No Children Here
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.