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Book, 2002
Current format, Book, 2002, First Riverhead trade paperback edition, No Longer Available.
Book, 2002
Current format, Book, 2002, First Riverhead trade paperback edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
As a teenager raised in L.A.'s inner city without a father, Michael Datcher had already committed theft, learned the ways of the street, and developed a mortal fear of police. But Datcher had a dream about a very different kind of life-and a second chance to make good on a promise to himself.
"Brutally honest, hauntingly poetic...heartbreaking." (Essence) Drawing on his own personal experiences of a fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, which led to promiscuity, attraction to local gangs, and a lack of faith, a poet and journalist describes his own deep yearning--and that of other African-American men--to escape this destructive cycle to achieve family, personal security, and love. Reprint. Relating his fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, a poet and journalist describes his yearning, and that of other African American men, to escape this destructive cycle to achieve personal security and happiness.
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