Random family

love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

409 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2004 by Scribner.

ISBN:: 978-0-7432-5443-4
OCLC Number:: 54532559

(4 reviews)

The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.

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3 stars

Harrowing to read. exhaustive in detail and exhausting to take in. When I got to the part where one of the main characters was served with a notice of eviction by her public housing authority, I thought, "Well, this is where we come in."