In the last school year alone, 29 current and recent students of Harper High School in Chicago were shot. 29. This American Life spent five months at the school to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all that violence. Listen to Part 2.
Stories by Alex Kotlowitz
On an August day in 1979, Carla Dimkoff learned something which shaped the rest of her life and the life of a complete stranger. And it took 26 years for her to realize that.