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Dear Marcus : A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me by Jerry McGill is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dear Marcus : A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me about?
<p><b><i>The idea to write to you was not an easy one.</i></b><br> <b><i>The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot him.<br> <br> <b><i>I have decided to give you a name.</i></b><br> <b><i>I am going to call you Marcus.</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> With profound grace, brutal honesty, and devastating humor, Jerry McGill takes us on a dramatic and inspiring journey—from the streets of 1980s New York, where poverty and violence were part of growing up, to the challenges of living with a disability and learning to help and inspire others, to the long, difficult road to acceptance, forgiveness, and, ultimately, triumph.<br> <br> <b><i>I didn’t write this book for you, Marcus. I wrote this for those who endure.</i></b><br> <b><i>Those who manage. Those who are determined to move on.</i></b></p>
Who reads Dear Marcus : A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jerry McGill
- Publisher
- Random House; Transworld Publishers Limited
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812993073
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (205 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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