There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unabridged)
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Author : Alex KotlowitzPublisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.Narrator : Dion GrahamReleased on : 30-APR-2010
Audio Length : 10 hours and 41 min.Type : unabridged
Format : AudioBook
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This New York Public Library selection, as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century, is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects.This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America's cities.
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