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The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race For A Gun, And A Community United To Save Them - 9781501194412
Simon & Schuster
ISBN13:
9781501194412
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A New York Times bestselling authors gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence. In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkateshs The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of families surviving in a Southside Chicago community. At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshall Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousins drug business while hes in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friendsit is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends decide they must preemptively go after Frankies crew to defend their honor. The pressure mounts as both groups of teens race to find a gun and strike first. All the while, the community at largea cast that includes the teens families, black market gun dealers, local pastors, a bodega owner, and a veteran beat coptry their best to defuse the conflict and keep the kids alive. Based on Venkateshs three decades of immersion in Chicagos Southside, and as propulsive as a novel, The Tomorrow Game is a nuanced, timely look at the toll that poverty and gun violence take on families and their communities.
- | Author: Sudhir Venkatesh
- | Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- | Publication Date: Jun 20, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1501194410
- | ISBN-13: 9781501194412
- Author:
- Sudhir Venkatesh
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:
- Jun 20, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 304 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1501194410
- ISBN-13:
- 9781501194412