Random family

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

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409 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2004 by Scribner.

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

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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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Subjects

  • Cas, Études de
  • Biographies
  • Pauvres
  • Youth
  • Quartiers pauvres
  • Jeunesse
  • Inner cities
  • Families
  • Usage des drogues
  • Conditions sociales
  • Case studies
  • Drug use
  • Social conditions
  • Urban poor
  • Famille
  • Biography

Places

  • New York
  • New York (State)
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
  • New York (État)

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