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Book summary: In the '90s in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon, Jackson's neighborhood and the streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place. "The Residue Years" switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream.
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