Great Lakes Book Awards Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country\'s foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race.
Kennedy Journalism Award, the George Polk Award and twice a Columbia duPont Award..
He\'s been honored with some of journalism\'s major prizes: a George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F.
His stories, which one reviewer wrote "inform the heart," have also appeared in The New Yorker , Granta , Rolling Stone , The Chicago Tribune , Slate and The Washington Post , as well as on PBS ( Frontline , the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour and Media Matters ) and on NPR\'s All Things Considered and Morning Edition .
A former staff writer at The Wall Street Journal , Alex has long been a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and public radio\'s This American Life .
Alex\'s nonfiction stories, which one critic wrote "inform the heart," have appeared in print, radio and film.
About the Author: ALEX Kotlowitz is perhaps best known for his national bestseller, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America , which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century.
The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns\' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery--and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.
The investigation into the young man\'s Death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears.
When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns\' populations surface as well.
Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black.
Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America\'s racial divisions: St.
Joseph River.
Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St.
In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two Towns in southern Michigan, St.
Great Lakes Book Awards Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country\'s foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race
