![]() ![]() ![]() They made it sound important, which it is, and wise. They put the book in context, mentioning the murders of Michael Brown and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. All of them were positive, and praised the author's reportorial skills. In preparing this recommendation, I read a number of reviews. This book focuses on the 77th Division of South Central Los Angeles, and follows a number of homicide detectives tasked with solving gang-related murders, the kind buried deep inside the newspaper, or perhaps not mentioned at all. They live in our towns, but in another part. When those people are from India, as in Katherine Boo's Beyond The Beautiful Forevers one can sort of be forgiven, but in Ghettoside, as in Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's masterful Random Family, the strangers are Americans. It's just the sort of thing I go for: an exhaustively researched non-fiction account of people I know nothing about. What hit me the hardest in 2015 was Jill Leovy's Ghettoside. When offered this opportunity to recommend a book to The Book of the Month Club, I knew exactly which one to choose. ![]()
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