Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
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Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2004). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
A nonfiction story of young people in the ghetto, as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780743254434
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(2004)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2003)
Other awarded books from Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
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