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The Other Side of the River

A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma

A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma

A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma

By Alex Kotlowitz
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Category: Psychology

Category: Psychology

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Paperback $17.00

Jan 19, 1999 | 336 Pages

Ebook $7.99

Jan 04, 2012 | 336 Pages

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Jul 04, 2000 | 360 Minutes

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    About The Other Side of the River

    Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country’s foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America’s racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns’ populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man’s death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns’ citizens as they wrestle with this mystery–and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.

    About The Other Side of the River

    Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country’s foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America’s racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns’ populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man’s death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns’ citizens as they wrestle with this mystery–and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.

    About The Other Side of the River

    Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by Oprah Winfrey, won many distinguished awards, and sparked a continuing national debate on the lives of inner-city children.



    In The Other Side of the River, his eagerly awaited new book, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living metaphor for America’s racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns’ populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man’s death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears.



    The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns’ citizens as they wrestle with this mystery–and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Alex Kotlowitz proves why he is one of this country’s foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race.


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    About Alex Kotlowitz

    Alex Kotlowitz is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was… More about Alex Kotlowitz

    About Alex Kotlowitz

    Alex Kotlowitz is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was… More about Alex Kotlowitz

    About Alex Kotlowitz

    Alex Kotlowitz is the author of the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His second book, The Other Side of the River, was… More about Alex Kotlowitz

    Product Details

    Category: Psychology

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Anchor
    Jan 19, 1999 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385477215

    Category: Psychology

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Anchor
    Jan 04, 2012 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307814296

    Category: Psychology | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.48
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jul 04, 2000 | 360 Minutes | ISBN 9780553753479

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    Praise

    “I was impressed and enthralled…This book has suspense and style, and the delight of real substance presented with grace…a work of great narrative power, superb reporting, and profound empathy–in other words, a joy.” –Scott Turow

    “A riveting portrait of a racially troubled America in the 1990’s.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)

    “A vivid American microcosm, a telling tableau of the way we are.” —The New York Times

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