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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

Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein''s The Holly presents a 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 mo

The Holly

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 10 May 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250849335
      978-1250849335
      ISBN-10 1250849330
      Also in:
      True crime Organized crime Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

      Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein''s The Holly presents a 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 mo

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