Description du livre
Every day, nearly seven children or teenagers die by gunshots in the United States. This chilling statistic alone cannot capture the lives destroyed by guns, so Gary Younge decided to tell the story of the young people killed on a random day. Ten of them were shot dead on 23 November 2013, ten children and teenagers aged 9 to 19 years old: seven black, two Hispanic and one white.
Gary Younge devotes a chapter to each of these victims killed by gunshots, sometimes by accident, sometimes during a settling of scores: Jaiden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Tyshon, Gary and Gustin. By cross-checking the interviews he conducted with their relatives, the reports of the police, the "911" and local journalists, he reconstructs the lives and last minutes of these young people, victims of their social condition, adult neglect and lobbies.
Vibrating immersion in these ten short lives, A Day in the Death of America is a work as precise as it is intense. Gary Younge uses all his narrative skills to immerse us in today's United States and invite us to reflect, without taboos, on this American tragedy.