When Doug's father refuses to return to suburban New York from one
of his lengthy business trips, his mother swallows a bottle of
sleeping pills and Doug and sister Constance move in with their
mother's mother in Rochester, who takes them in temporarily. At the
end of the school year, Constance goes on to college and Grandma
unloads Doug, putting him on a plane to Chicago to live with
Carleton, the father he barely knows, and his father's young,
beautiful, Native American wife. Doug finds himself living two
blocks from the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, in an area
where whites had mostly fled and black gangs are taking control.
Carleton moved in with Mary a year earlier, marrying her two weeks
after his wife died, and they remain in her apartment in the
changing neighborhood because he'd lost another job due to his
drinking and because Mary didn't like to be surrounded by white
people anyway. Doug is immediately thrust into a world of petty
crime, violence, and racial hatred, some of which emanates from
Mary, who loves his father but despises herself for living with a
white man. And yet, on her good days, she becomes more of a mother
to Doug than he'd ever had, teaching him how to treat a lady and
how to find his way in the inner-city. On her bad days, she locks
him out of their apartment. So Doug comes of age in the streets,
dates girls who live in the projects, and sees people beaten and
killed. The people he comes to trust and learn from are people who
are not white. They're Indian, they're Hispanic, and mostly they're
Black. So who is he, he wonders, who thought of himself as White?
This is the story of how it turns out.
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