Alex Kotlowitz’s books include There Are No Children Here and, most recently, Chicago: Never a City So Real (Crown). He teaches writing at Northwestern University.
‘Early one morning in July 2003 I was woken by a phone call from a young man who I’d known since he was twelve.’
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