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Author: Alex KotlowitzFormat: --
Publisher: Random House IncISBN-10: 038547721X
ISBN-13: 9780385477215Educational Level: --
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Through a difficult search for truth about the murder of an African-American youth in a Michigan town, Alex Kotlowitz examines the divide between races. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

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In The Other Side of the River, Kotlowitz brings readers to two Michigan towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Separated by the St. Joseph River, they are geographically close, yet worlds apart: St. Joseph is a 95 percent white, prosperous lakeshore community, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and 92 percent black. When the body of a black teenage boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns populations surface as well. The investigation into Eric Mcginnis's death inevitably becomes a screen onto which each community projects its resentments and fears. Beautifully written and painstakingly reported, The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery and others - and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America. This powerful story challenges us to think about our own assumptions about race, no matter which side of the river we live on.

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"Kotlowitz works diligently to get at the elusive truth about one young man's death, and at the larger issue of how the color of our skin shapes our beliefs. Nearly every citizen in St. Joseph and Benton harbor seems to have trouble imagining the view from the other side of the river. This spiritual isolation from each other, Kotlowitz writes, is America's race dilemma."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Jane Adams (01/18/1998)

"Kotlowitz has produced a skillfully rendered, thoughtful study of a divided country in microcosm."
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"As he takes us on his journey, Kotlowitz succeeds in his real purpose, which is to amplify our understanding of the many ways, subtle and not so subtle, in which past experience and present circumstance continue to divide the races into separate subjective camps."
New York Times  (01/28/1998)

"Kotlowitz's portrait of two towns is compelling and evocative....And it is hard to complain about urban sociology that comes wrapped in a detective story."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Tamar Jacoby (02/15/1998)


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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 038547721X
Title : The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
Authors : Alex Kotlowitz
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Anchor
Publication Date : 1999-01-19
Pages : 336
List Price (MSRP) : 14.95
Height : 0.7900 inches
Width : 5.2200 inches
Length : 8.0600 inches
Weight : 0.5500 pounds
Keywords : General, America, Discrimination & Racism, Michigan, Midwest
Condition : Acceptable

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