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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 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Adrian Nicole LeBlancPublish date:2004-02-10Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743254434ISBN-10:743254430UPC:9780743254434Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Poverty & Homelessness, SociologyBook Topic:Urban, Marriage & FamilyAward:2004 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) Honorable Mention - Nonfiction AwardSize:8.40 x 5.48 x 1.07 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCH5Y2WEWW
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780743254434ISBN-10:743254430UPC:9780743254434Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Poverty & Homelessness, SociologyBook Topic:Urban, Marriage & FamilyAward:2004 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) Honorable Mention - Nonfiction AwardSize:8.40 x 5.48 x 1.07 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCH5Y2WEWW
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole: - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's first book, Random Family, was a New York Times Bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize. LeBlanc's work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire, Elle, Spin, The Source, The Village Voice, and other magazines. LeBlanc lives in Manhattan.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Awards

🏆 2004 Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) Honorable Mention - Nonfiction Award

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