The Walking Wounded

“There are books that capture our immediate attention, and there are books that linger in our minds. By unearthing the dark aftermath of gun violence, Lee has written one of those rare works that grips us, shakes us, and stays with us—hauntingly. A powerful and uncompromising ethnography.” – Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin“The Walking Wounded is a haunting account of the victims of gun violence in Black Philadelphia. Readers learn that there is little glory in surviving a gun wound but rather an agonizing afterlife of fear, pain, hopelessness, and opioid addiction. Lee’s sobering analysis shows how victims and their families struggle to navigate the trauma and suffering—a painful story that needs to be told.” – Randol Contreras, author of ‘The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles’

Jooyoung Lee is associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central, also published by the University of Chicago Press.