Hush Little Children: The debut novel by poet Hayan Charara

In a city divided by fear and hate, a couple must fight to protect their unborn child

On the same day the child suicides first start, a couple in the East Side finds out they're pregnant. One has nothing to do with the other, but in a city rife with tension between the East Side and the West Side, they have reason to be concerned. Then when a teen's murder-suicide rocks the city, many see a pattern, that it's the failings of the East Side and those people-you know, those people-who live ther...