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Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
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Feb 04, 2019
This almost Dickensian book takes an in-depth, longitudinal look at poverty in the South Bronx from 1988 to 2001. Told through the lens of one family, the siblings Jessica and Cesar, and their most important relationships with Boy George…
Feb 28, 2018Jodi13 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book will stick with me for quite awhile. I can't imagine the hours of research, interviews and observations the author logged to show a family in the Bronx.
Feb 16, 2018redtayres rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I can't recall the first time I read this but suffice to say, reading it a second time it still holds up. Perhaps the author could have gotten by with fewer pages and left the reader with the same impressions but page after page after…
Aug 05, 2014bronteside rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Not for the faint of heart. Leave your middle class comfort zone and know you can return after spending 11 years and four hundred pages with the saddest,scariest and most resourceful creatures poverty can buy. LeBlanc is unflinchingly…
Apr 24, 2014sarahfox rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Honest, captivating and moving, this book is all consuming. Exactly everything I could have hope for and more, I would absolutely add this book to your list of "must-reads"
christinafullofgrace
Feb 02, 2014christinafullofgrace rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This book is fantastic!!! It was a great easy read because I was so interested in the content its a very sad but raw and truthful exposure to what occurs in so many areas not only in New York.
TreyMendez
Nov 21, 2011TreyMendez rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This story delves into the hidden New York that only gets ink in the police blotter, but it's the New York of the kid next to you on the 2 train on Monday morning. When I ran the New York office of an anti-poverty nonprofit I made this…