{"product_id":"the-holly-five-bullets-one-gun-and-the-struggle-to-save-an-american-neighborhood-9781250849335","title":"The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's \u003ci\u003eThe Holly\u003c\/i\u003e presents a dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Holly\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Holly\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Holly\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulian Rubinstein \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist and the author of \u003ci\u003eBallad of the Whiskey Robber\u003c\/i\u003e, which was\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Best Fact Crime award. He is also the director of \u003ci\u003eThe Holly\u003c\/i\u003e, an investigative documentary based on his book of the same name. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in \u003ci\u003eBest American Crime Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a visiting professor of the practice of documentary journalism at the University of Denver.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707701367058,"sku":"9781250849335","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28f7fd6c-0810-44c2-9c7d-cffbdbbd90e7.jpg?v=1737264865","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-holly-five-bullets-one-gun-and-the-struggle-to-save-an-american-neighborhood-9781250849335","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}