Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

“You get all the way ready to go, walk out the door, and you can do what you want for that time frame.” “He could play on the computer, play Minecraft, watch Duck Dynasty or a DVR from the night before,” she explains. Socks, shoes, shirt, everything”-the rest of the morning was his.

If he could get himself ready-“all the way ready. I’d pull him by his ankle to try to get him to get dressed.” They had a deal. “I’d tickle him to try and get him to get up,” says Nicole. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he would first migrate to his mother’s room, where his clothes hung, and climb into her bed. But Jaiden, who had a loft bunk bed in the same room as Jarid, would try to string out his slumber for as long as possible. The older two would take this as a cue for the inevitable and get up. As soon as her three boys-Jarid Fitzpatrick, age seventeen, Jordin Brown, age sixteen, and Jaiden Dixon, age nine-heard her footsteps they would pull the covers over their heads because they knew what was coming next: the lights. S CHOOL MORNINGS IN N ICOLE F ITZPATRICK’ S HOME FOLLOWED A predictable routine. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child’s face-on the “collateral damage” of gun deaths across the country. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost.

Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps.

It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. Anthony Lukas Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award Finalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge