The Violence Almanac Theater One of Bank Street's 2021

One of Bank Street's 2021 Best Children's Books of the Year

a claim that no one in her life will accept--except for her single mother

Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America

His remarkable gut instincts and relentless detective work have put him on a three-year fast track to becoming an inspector

The Violence Almanac Theater One of Bank Street's 2021In THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC, Miah Jeffra complicates the boundaries between culture and nature, fiction and true crime, desire and pain. In this powerful fiction debut, Jeffra takes us through the California landscape to map the various ways that violence emerges, terrorizes and shapes our most familiar social structures. An ostracized child yearns to be the hero for a rural community threatened by an escaped penitentiary inmate. An ambitious young writer