A phenomenally gripping account of a homicide investigation explodes the myths around policing and race.
Jill Leovy is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Ghettoside was a Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, winner of the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the California Book Award Nonfiction Gold Medal, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-fiction, the PEN USA Research Non-fiction Award, the Carla Furstenburg Cohen Literary Prize in Nonfiction, and was a nominee for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Riveting … extraordinary … For long passages, it enveloped and
transported me more completely than any other work of nonfiction I
have ever read
*Sunday Times*
Lucid, revelatory, superbly written, incredibly timely. I was
astonished by Jill Leovy's Ghettoside in which police and race in
America are examined with forensic skill and furious, exceptional
prose. Unmissable.
*Chris Cleave*
Exceptional. This book will take an honoured place on the shelf
that includes David Simon's classic Homicide
*Martin Amis*
Fantastic. Not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book,
but an important one. Everyone needs to read this book
*Michael Connelly*
The best crime journalism since Serial
*Esquire*
Simply one of the finest books ever written about crime in LA – and
crime in America, for that matter … Tremendously touching …
astonishing … achieves greatness through its ability to be both
timely and timeless
*New Statesman*
Superbly told. A provocative examination of how and why murder
happens and a fast-paced crime narrative
*Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the
Grove*
Mind-blowing in its forensic detail, Ghettoside's insight into
post-Michael Brown, post-Eric Garner America cannot be overstated.
This is the best corrective to all those who wring their hands in
despair in the face of race, social justice and policing in the
United States
*Rt Hon David Lammy, MP*
‘Powerful, gripping … What sets Ghettoside apart from the slew of
factual police procedurals published every year, is a compelling
analysis of the factors behind the epidemic of black-on-black
homicide, and the beginnings of a policy prescription for tackling
it. This makes Ghettoside an important book, which deserves a wide
audience
*Guardian Book of the Week*
It's to the author's credit that Ghettoside is so hard to put down,
and that you wind up caring for everyone involved. When killers are
caught, you don't feel victorious so much as sad. Another life
wasted. Unlike a detective novel where you think, "Well, that
happened," here there's the sense of the grinding wheel, one
gang-related murder after another. On and on and on. It's
relentless and brutal, and Jill Leovy's account of it is art.
*David Cedaris, Book of the Month*
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