"A serious and kaleidoscopic achievement . . . [Jill Leovy is] a crisp writer with a crisp mind and the ability to boil entire skies of information into hard journalistic rain."
--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Masterful . . . gritty reporting that matches the police work behind it."
--Los Angeles Times "Moving and engrossing."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Penetrating and heartbreaking . . .
Ghettoside points out how relatively little America has cared even as recently as the last decade about the value of young black men's lives."
--USA Today "Functions both as a snappy police procedural and--more significantly--as a searing indictment of legal neglect . . . Leovy's powerful testimony demands respectful attention."
--The Boston Globe "
Ghettoside is fantastic. It does what the best narrative nonfiction does: It transcends its subject by taking one person's journey and making it all our journeys. That's what makes this not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book, but an important one. From the patrol cop to the president, everyone needs to read this book."
--Michael Connelly "
Ghettoside is remarkable: a deep anatomy of lawlessness."
--Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal "[Leovy writes] with grace and artistry, and controlled--but bone-deep--outrage in her new book. . . .
Ghettoside, if there's any justice, will be the most important book about urban violence in a generation."
--David M. Kennedy, The Washington Post "Riveting . . . This timely book could not be more important."
--Associated Press "Told with the chilling detail and gripping pace of a prime-time drama."
--The Economist "Leovy's relentless reporting has produced a book packed with valuable, hard-won insights--and it serves as a crucial, 366-page reminder that 'black lives matter.' "
--The New York Times Book Review "A compelling analysis of the factors behind the epidemic of black-on-black homicide, and the beginnings of a policy prescription for tackling it . . . an important book, which deserves a wide audience."
--Hari Kunzru, The Guardian "
Ghettoside has many successes: its complicated portrait of the LAPD, the humanity it lends to the families of murder victims, and its ability to engage readers from a historical and current-day context (the sundry facts Leovy provides throughout the book never overwhelm)."
--Jason Parham, Gawker "A brave book . . . It is not often that I pick up a work of non-fiction and picture the movie unfolding before my eyes. . . . [
Ghettoside] offers a calm dissection of America's oldest epidemic. . . . [Leovy's] knowledge makes for lapidary prose that crackles with insight. It is also deeply humane."
--Financial Times "First-rate stuff."
--Newsweek