Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

"On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In [this book], Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's ex-boyfriend on his doorstep in Ohio, to Pedro Dado Cortez (16), shot by an enemy gang on a street corner in California, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the ... human stories behind the statistics"--