How Long Will I Cry? Voices of Youth Violence
“This book began with a brutal murder, a viral video and a cup of coffee..."
The introductory sentence of “How Long Will I Cry?” pulls you in like magnet, then traps you in a whirlwind of human misery that touches down, rips through Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, leaving a trail of blood and tears.
Violence is the norm of daily life in this collection of oral histories penned by creative writing students at DePaul University who interviewed those who have seen and survived too much to bear: children, parents, police and preachers.