"If it takes a village to raise a child, then the Bronx neighborhood that journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc documents in Random Family has failed miserably. The Tremont Avenue area, where LeBlanc spent a decade immersed in the poverty- and drug-laced world of two Puerto Rican girls, Jessica and Coco, is the kind of "village" most of us would want to avoid.
Random Family, Leblanc's first book, is a seminal work of journalism, a brand of deep reporting rarely attempted anymore. It's written like a documentary, and LeBlanc makes no judgments about the lives she presents. Political spin, statistical analyses, blame and solutions are absent."--Stephen J. Lyons USAToday
Who are you? Are you more than who they say you are? Are you more than you think you are? Miriam finds the strength to be better than she knew she could be, despite what the mean girls have to say!
