A conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh, author of "The Tomorrow Game"

American Writers Museum presents a discussion with bestselling author and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh about his new book "The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them." Venkatesh is joined in conversation by Teny Oded Gross, Executive Director of the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago. This program originally took place July 6, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. For a full list of upcoming programs and events with the American Writers Museum, click here: americanwritersmuseum.org/calendar/
Based on Venkatesh’s three decades of immersion in Chicago’s Southside, and as propulsive as a novel, "The Tomorrow Game" is a nuanced, timely look at the toll that poverty and gun violence take on families and their communities. It’s a rare story of nonviolence-of succeeding in stopping a tragic inner-city death, rather than the aftermath when it’s too late. It takes a community to raise a child, and it takes a community to save one from themselves. "The Tomorrow Game" is a step-by-step sociological study of one case, but it’s a universally relatable story that carries lessons for any city across American wrestling with gun violence and how to keep kids safe. Order your copy of "The Tomorrow Game" here: bookshop.org/a/628/9781501194399