Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

Written by Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by Dick Hill

Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. Unlike his previous books, however, Ordinary Resurrections is almost entirely narrative and takes us into the fascinating details of daily life as he has lived it with young children who befriended him over the course of several years.

Like Amazing Grace, this book describes the children of New York's South Bronx, but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point. Here, we see life through the eyes of the children, not, as Kozol puts it, from the perspective of a grown-up man encumbered by a Harvard education. Here, too, we meet some dedicated and inspired teachers in an underfunded but upbeat public elementary school, and we return once more to St. Ann's Church and meet the parents and religious figures in the children's lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Mar 25, 2005
• ISBN: 9781596005976

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol’s widely honored books include Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, The Shame of the Nation, and Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.