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Originally posted by dtb
Has anyone ever read the book "Random Family" by Adrian LeBlanc? I am reading it now and it's outstanding.
It's non-fiction, but reads like a novel almost. The author "shadowed" her main subject for over a decade, and writes about life in one of the very poorest sections of the very poor South Bronx. It is excellent.
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I just finished that about a week ago, having bought it at GCT (that's Grand Central Terminal for all of you not in TCOTU) when I had nothing to read and a long-ass subway ride home on the F. It was excellent, in a really depressing socio-economic cycle of poverty kind of way. I have no idea how LeBlanc managed to get that kind of access.
ETA: The last scene is so bittersweet/poignant that it would have made someone not quite as badass as you all know I am a little misty.
EATA: I am starting to write more and more like Gertude Stein, which is not a good thing.
