The Other Side of the River
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The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz
Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man's death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery--and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.Alex Kotlowitz is the author of the national blockbuster There Are No Children Here, which was named one of the 150 most important novels of the twentieth century by the New York Public Library. The Other Side of the River, his second book, won the Heartland Award for Nonfiction. He won an Emmy and a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary for his documentary film The Interrupters. Two Peabody honors, two duPont-Columbia University awards, and a George Polk Award have been given to Kotlowitz's writing, which has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and on public radio's This American Life. He is a Northwestern University writer-in-residence. Just north of Chicago, Kotlowitz lives with his wife, Maria Woltjen, and their two children, Mattie and Lucas.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780385477215 |
| ISBN 10 | 038547721X |
| Title | The Other Side of the River |
| Author | Alex Kotlowitz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1999-01-19 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Great Lakes Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1999 |
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