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Adrian Nicole Leblanc - Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

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Coming of age in the midst of the Bronx drug trade, nineteen-year-old Jessica, fourteen-year-old Coco, and their lovers experience budding sexuality, teen parenthood, and gang identity, in a social examination of the challenges of family life in the face of violence.
 

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Random Family: Much more than just another story

Date of Review:  Jul 25, 2006
The Bottom Line: This is a rare find and a great book for discussion. A book club question list is included in the book.
Review: Injustice is a term that is known to the urban poor in practical terms: young men selling drugs to put food on the table, single mothers raising children with fathers in jail, grandparenting as a second chance to get it right, and babies that are...
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Amazing Study in Socio-Economic/Welfare Issues

Date of Review:  Feb 17, 2007
Review: Leblanc follows and documents, with a rare combination of objectivity tempered with sensitivity, several years in the lives of two young women, both of whom belong to families which share the following common culture: first-or-second generation...
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Authors Adrian Nicole Leblanc
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Current Events • Family & Relationships • Social Science
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  Ruminator Review: "Ultimately, the book is held together by LeBlanc's gift for descriptive prose. There are moments when it reads like a novel, when this world, which could seem so foreign, is revealed in such rich sensory detail that readers have no choice but to experience it firsthand...."

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Publisher: Scribner (January 19, 2004)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.85 lbs.
ISBN: 9780743254434

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  Jessica lived on Tremont Avenue, on one of the poorer blocks in a very poor section of the Bronx.
 

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