People Kill People

Ellen Hopkins

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781481442947
• eBook ISBN: 9781481442954

"Fall's most provocative YA read." — Entertainment Weekly A New York Times bestseller. Someone will shoot. And someone will die. A compelling and complex novel about gun violence and white supremacy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins. People kill people. Guns just make it easier. A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression?One tense week brings all six people into close contact in a town wrought with political and personal tensions. Someone will fire. And someone will die. But who?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• You
• Take It One Step Further
• Like Dawn and Dusk
• The Millennia Crept Forward
• Think
• You Know How
• Because What If
• You See, Like a God
• Please Allow Me
• Our Mutual History Begins
• In the Ensuing Years
• On His Way Home
• Zane Was No Dummy
• Off the Hook
• Yes, He Kept
• Zane Was Snoring
• Truthfully
• Too Late
• Just Before
• There Was Some Discussion
• No Queries
• The Only Thing
• Five Flags
• The City Today
• So, Just for Kicks
• Spotlight: Rand
• Fade In: Slip into Rand’s Skin
• Fate Is Unreliable
• Revenge Is Sensuous
• Spotlight: Silas
• Fade In: Slip into Silas’s Skin
• What to Do
• Some Plans
• Spotlight: Daniel
• Fade In: Slip into Daniel’s Skin
• One Girl
• The Thing About Young Hunters
• Spotlight: Noelle
• Fade In: Slip into Noelle’s Skin
• Just a Nightmare
• Given That
• Spotlight: Cami
• Fade In: Slip into Cami’s Skin
• Closeted Apparitions
• Hold Your Breath
• You’ve Met Almost
• Fade In: Slip into Ashlyn’s Skin
• For a Rare Few
• Some Secrets Take Time to Uncover
• Fade In: Slip Back into Rand’s Skin
• Human Resilience
• Programming
• Fade In: Slip Back into Silas’s Skin
• Who Can Say
• The Universe
• Fade In: Slip Back into Daniel’s Skin
• Assumptions
• A Hard Truth
• Fade In: Slip Back into Noelle’s Skin
• Protecting One’s Heart
• It’s Said
• Fade In: Slip Back into Cami’s Skin
• The Human Heart
• Provide Sufficient Pain
• Fade In: Slip Back into Ashlyn’s Skin
• A Collision
• Stereotypes
• Fade In: Slip Back into Rand’s Skin
• Dearest Reader
• Sheer Visceral Hatred
• It’s a Phenomenal Thing
• Fade In: Slip Back into Silas’s Skin
• The Days of Duels
• To Be Sure
• Fade In: Slip Back into Daniel’s Skin
• Give Voice
• There’s an Old Song
• Fade In: Slip Back into Noelle’s Skin
• One Afternoon
• See, the Thing Is
• Fade In: Slip Back into Cami’s Skin
• There’s a Myth
• Young Humans
• Fade In: Slip Back into Ashlyn’s Skin
• It Might Not Seem Possible
• One Moment
• Fade In: Slip Back into Rand’s Skin
• Risk
• You Might Choose
• Fade In: Slip Back into Silas’s Skin
• Who’s to Say
• If You Speak
• Fade In: Slip Back into Daniel’s Skin
• The End
• Fade In: Slip Back into Noelle’s Skin
• Imagine
• Fade In: Slip Back into Cami’s Skin
• If You Knew
• Fade In: Slip Back into Ashlyn’s Skin
• Meanwhile
• Waylon Bingham, Almost Three
• Daniel
• One
• Take a Deep Breath
• Fade In: One Last Time: Slip into Rand’s Skin
• Fade In: One Last Time: Slip into Silas’s Skin
• Fade In: One Last Time: Slip into Daniel’s Skin
• Fade In: One Last Time: Slip into Noelle’s Skin
• Fade In: One Last Time: Slip into Cami’s Skin
• Fade In: One Last Time: Slip into Ashlyn’s Skin
• Fade In: Epilogue
• And So You Understand
• See, the Absolute Truth
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright