Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Unabridged) Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Unabridged)

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour.

In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances—Jessica’s dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George, and Coco’s first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar—Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies. Jessica and Boy George ride the wild adventure between riches and ruin, while Coco and Cesar stick closer to the street, all four caught in a precarious dance between survival and death. Friends get murdered; the DEA and FBI investigate Boy George; Cesar becomes a fugitive; Jessica and Coco endure homelessness, betrayal, the heartbreaking separation of prison, and, throughout it all, the insidious damage of poverty.

Charting the tumultuous cycle of the generations—as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation—LeBlanc slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and true story.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
RO
Roxana Ortega
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
20:07
hr min
RELEASED
2016
October 18
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
614
MB

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