There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

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About the Author

ALEX KOTLOWITZ, a former staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, has won the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the Thurgood Marshall Award. His work has appeared in numerous publications including the New Times Magazine, Atlantic, New Yorker, and NPR"s This American Life, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Frontline. He is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River, and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here.

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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing project in Chicago over a two-year period. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle to survive gun battles, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and mismanaged bureaucracies.

Through extensive research, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up in the 'jects', selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century.

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