Random Family

Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Hardcover, 416 pages

English language

Published Jan. 28, 2003 by Scribner.

ISBN:: 978-0-684-86387-0

(5 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.

5 editions

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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."