Download Until You Bleed: The Caheri Gutierrez Story AudioBook Free
You can find places in the us where a scar, physical or mental, speaks louder when compared to a badge or a pulpit or a diploma ever before could. In 2008, Caheri Gutierrez, a young model in one of Oakland's most dangerous neighborhoods, was taken in her beautiful face and nearly killed in a drive-by. Until You Bleed explains to the story of her trip from troubled youth to traumatized victim to community innovator seeking to recover herself and her city. Visión Hispana calls Until You Bleed "captivating." The San Francisco Chronicle says Gutierrez is "an unforgettable subject matter." Until You Bleed features interviews with the Mayor of Oakland and other city leaders, although it traces the annals of the homicide rate in Oakland and the city's slow-moving awakening to its impact and meaning. But it is Gutierrez' storyline, her courage and integrity, that readers find most riveting. Survivors of firearm violence have crucial things to explains to us about how precisely the bullet wounded not merely their body, but their brains and lives, their families and communities. Until You Bleed gives a victim and a city each a tone of voice.
