A provocative, critically acclaimed account of the author's life as a fifteen-year-old gang member in East Los Angeles and his Herculean effort to break loose of the culture of violence, drug use, and crime. Reprint. NYT.
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The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit him at LuisJRodriguez.com.
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