"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
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This book is killer. Coming at it from a white surburban perspective, it truly is like reading about another world. The way the author presents the lives and decisions of these kids (and the adults around them) without judgment is really great.
You cannot find anything online about "Boy George's" arrest that is not related to this book! I wonder what his real name/aka was. I would love to know what has happened to Jessica and Coco since the book ended.
Boy Georgereal name is George Rivera and the Story is true im from brooklyn but i heard many hood stories and Boy george was one of them this book is one of my favorites to date i owned since 2006 but im actually finishing it in 2008.... i kept putting it down to start another book for school or bull shitting away but i will read it over and over for years to come well structured....
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