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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.

Los mexicanos ya estamos hartos. Cansados de lo que pasa y no pasa en nuestro país. Aburridos de la comunicación narcisista de las marcas con las que ya no conectamos, de los gobiernos que van y vienen y nada cambia. Hasta la madre de que los extranjeros nos vean como simpática mano de obra barata que ofrece playas con buena fiesta. Ya no nos representa la identidad con la que sedujimos al mundo en México 68 y nos empobrecen los intentos de encasillarnos en una identidad nacionalista.

It's a coming of age tale about growing up in a deteriorating urban African American city, a young adult life in a vibrant Japan, and rediscovering two conflicting societies in America. The author uses his life as a platform to highlight often self-imposed social and cultural barriers that can hinder a sense of self-esteem, well-being, and success in America. You'll feel as if you're right alongside the author as he encounters the ills and pitfalls awaiting him in one of these societies.

The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a Black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today.

On a worldwide tour to promote the newest album of hot rock band Spear Fist, Finn Fairlane is still trying to make sense of his complicated love life. Ex-girlfriend Faith Siubhal went from the girl who got away to the woman who is finally back in his life, but his girlfriend Viv isn't very happy about her reemergence.