The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Rubinstein, Julian
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Rubinstein, Julian

The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General NonfictionWinner...
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The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Rubinstein, Julian

The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

BD$42.03
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Rubinstein, Julian

The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

BD$42.03
Author: Julian Rubinstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction
Winner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction

An award-winning journalist's dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future

On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an "invisible city" within a historically white metropolis. While shootings there weren't uncommon, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered anti-gang activist. His attempts to bring peace to his community had won the accolades of both his neighbors and the state's most important power brokers. Why had he just fired a gun?

In The Holly, the award-winning Denver-based journalist Julian Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. Much more than a crime story, The Holly is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter. With a cast that includes billionaires, elected officials, cops, developers, and street kids, the book explores the porous boundaries between a city's elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. It also probes the fraught relationships between police, confidential informants, activists, gang members, and ex-gang members as they struggle to put their pasts behind them. In The Holly, we see how well-intentioned efforts to curb violence and improve neighborhoods can go badly awry, and we track the interactions of law enforcement with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders of a neighborhood. When Roberts goes on trial, the city's fault lines are fully exposed. In a time of national reckoning over race, policing, and the uses and abuses of power, Rubinstein offers a dramatic and humane illumination of what's at stake.

Author: Julian Rubinstein
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780374168919


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 03/08/2021
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2021
Library Journal 04/01/2021 pg. 77

About the Author
Julian Rubinstein is a journalist and the author of Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, which was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Best Fact Crime award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine, as well as in Best American Crime Writing. He is a visiting professor of the practice of documentary journalism at the University of Denver.
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