Another Day in the Death of AmericaAnother Day in the Death of America

"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In [this book], Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the ... human stories behind the statistics"--