Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
A nonfiction story of young people in the ghetto, as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN-13
- 9780743254434
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Urban povertyDrugs and crimeComing of age
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(2004)
Other awarded books from Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age
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