- EAN13
- 9781538740347
- Éditeur
- Grand Central Publishing
- Date de publication
- 20/02/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9781538740347
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A riveting and heart-wrenching story of violence, grief and the American
justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang
participation in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, through the
story of one teenager.
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez--known as Sito-- was shot to death
as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was
nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time
the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also
ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by
an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories,
and then the rest of the world moved on.
But for the families of the slain teenagers, it was impossible to move on. And
for Laurence Ralph, the stepfather of Sito's half-brother who had dedicated
much of his academic career to studying gang-affiliated youth, Sito's murder
forced him to revisit a subject of scholarly inquiry in a profoundly
different, deeply personal way.
Written from Ralph's perspective as both a person enmeshed in Sito's family
and as an Ivy League professor and expert on the entanglement of class and
violence, SITO is an intimate story with an message about the lived experience
of urban danger, and about anger, fear, grief, vengeance, and ultimately
grace.
justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang
participation in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, through the
story of one teenager.
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez--known as Sito-- was shot to death
as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was
nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time
the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also
ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by
an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories,
and then the rest of the world moved on.
But for the families of the slain teenagers, it was impossible to move on. And
for Laurence Ralph, the stepfather of Sito's half-brother who had dedicated
much of his academic career to studying gang-affiliated youth, Sito's murder
forced him to revisit a subject of scholarly inquiry in a profoundly
different, deeply personal way.
Written from Ralph's perspective as both a person enmeshed in Sito's family
and as an Ivy League professor and expert on the entanglement of class and
violence, SITO is an intimate story with an message about the lived experience
of urban danger, and about anger, fear, grief, vengeance, and ultimately
grace.
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