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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.
One of the best works of investigative journalism in years, 'Random
Family' tells the story of growing up in the Latino ghettos of the
Bronx, a story of drug-dealers, young mothers, poverty and
violence, a family saga like no other. It's 1985 in the Bronx and
teenagers Jessica and Coco are dating drug dealers and getting
pregnant. Fifteen years later, they each have five children,
Jessica is a grandmother and her drug-dealer boyfriend is serving a
life sentence. Welcome to their world. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, a
prize-winning investigative journalist, has spent a decade
accompanying and recording the lives of a motley crew of Latinos
living in the Bronx. The result is this extraordinary portrait of
love, sex and survival, one of the most riveting and highly
acclaimed books of the decade.
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