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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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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
September 1999, Perfection Learning Prebound
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0756912253 9780756912253
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
January 19, 1999, Anchor
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The other side of the river: a story of two towns, a death, and America's dilemma
1998, Nan A. Talese, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
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Maps of the towns of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan on endpapers.
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