The Other Side Of Prospect A Story Of Violence Injustice And The American City Nicholas Dawidoff by Nicholas Dawidoff instant download after payment.

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, & violence, told through a murder & intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.

One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent 16-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for 38 years. New Haven native & acclaimed author Nicholas Dawidoff returned home & spent 8 years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, & what it reveals about the enduring legacies of social & economic disparity.

In The Other Side of Prospect, he has produced an immersive portrait of a seminal community in an old American city now beset by division & gun violence. Tracing the histories of 3 people whose lives meet in tragedy—victim Pete Fields, likely murderer Major, & Bobby—Dawidoff indelibly describes optimistic families coming north from South Carolina as part of the Great Migration, for the promise of opportunity & upward mobility, & the harrowing costs of deindustrialization & neglect. Foremost are the unique challenges confronted by children like Major & Bobby coming of age in their “forgotten” neighborhood, steps from Yale University. After years in prison, with the help of a true-believing lawyer, Bobby is finally set free. His subsequent struggles with the memories of prison, & his heartbreaking efforts to reconnect with family & community, exemplify the challenges the formerly incarcerated face upon reentry into society &, writes Reginald Dwayne Betts, make this “the best book about the crisis of incarceration in America.”

This is a reportorial tour de force, at once a sweeping account of how the injustices of racism & inequality reverberate through the generations, & a beautifully written portrait of American city life, told through a group of unforgettable people & their intertwined experiences.