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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole

Paperback

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0743254430
ISBN13: 9780743254434
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Feb 10 2004
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.07 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam)
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an astonishingly intimate (New York magazine) chronicle of one family's triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s.

Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction...The standard-bearer of embedded reportage. --Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted

In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc's reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story--an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves.

Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.

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