{"product_id":"book-e80k","title":"The Holly","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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the last Friday evening of the summer of 2013, five shots rang out in the parking lot of a new Boys \u0026amp; Girls Club in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the Holly had become an \"invisible city\" within a historically white metropolis. While shootings weren't uncommon, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Holly\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein, who grew up in Denver, reconstructs the events leading up to the fateful confrontation that left a local gang member paralyzed and Terrance Roberts on trial, facing a life in prison. Much more than the story of a shooting, \u003ci\u003eThe Holly \u003c\/i\u003eis a multigenerational crime story that explores the porous boundaries between a city's elites and its most disadvantaged citizens, as well as the fraught interactions of police, confidential informants, activists, gang members, and ex-gang members trying-or not-to put their pasts behind them. It shows how well-intentioned urban renewal may hasten gentrification, and what happens when overzealous policing collides with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders, however imperfect, of a neighborhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the era of Black Lives Matter and urgent debates about the future of policing, Rubinstein offers a nuanced and humane illumination of what's at stake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49365320630576,"sku":"BDe80k","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/e80k-cover.jpg?v=1761364127","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e80k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}