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A Thousand Ways to Die The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

Trymaine Lee

NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why, he realized that to answer her honestly, he had to confront what almost killed him―the weight of being a Black man in Ame...

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Fresh Air

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The memoir was described as part history, part reporting and part personal, offering a plea to see the humanity of those lost to gun violence and urging the country to care.

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His new memoir, A Thousand Ways to Die, is part history, part reporting, and part personal turning point.

— Episode: The Cost Of Gun Violence On Black Life

Episode: The Cost Of Gun Violence On Black Life

The memoir was described as part history, part reporting and part personal, offering a plea to see the humanity of those lost to gun violence and urging the country to care.

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His new memoir, A Thousand Ways to Die, is part history, part reporting, and part personal turning point.

Our guest today is Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Tremaine Lee, and we're talking about his new book, A Thousand Ways to Die.

We're talking about his new book, A Thousand Ways to Die, which examines the human cost of gun violence.

Tremaine Lee's new book is A Thousand Ways to Die, The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America.

I want black people in particular to walk away from this book knowing that ain't nothing wrong with you... and I want white people and I want general readers to understand that there are systems that collude against our livelihoods.

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