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Since calling 9-1-1, the Pakistani manager of the convenience store in Franklin Heights, a neighborhood north of Milwaukee, has not slept. His nightmares are filled with black faces screaming 'I can't breathe anymore.' He should never have called the emergency number for a suspicious bank note. But it is too late, and the media around the world keep reminding him of the appalling death of his passing client, suffocated by the knee of a police officer. The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 inspired the author to write this overwhelming novel. "Depuis qu'il a composé le nine one one, le gérant…

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4 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 2023
    Schaffner Press · 9781639640102
  • Other · English · 2023
    Schaffner Press · 9781639640386
  • Other · English · 2023
    Schaffner Press · 9781639640096
  • Paperback · French · 2021
    SABINE WESPIESE · 288 pages · 9782848054131
Fiction, generalAfrican AmericansFictionPolice brutalityRace relations