Jocelyn E. (hoopridge) reviewed on 1/27/2009 + 252 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 10

Oh, man...I had to read this for a college class and was bummed out. UNTIL I started to read it. WOW. Powerful, scary, uplifting, terrifying, sad, joyful, and true. I looked around my single dorm room a lot as I read it, amazed at all I had while wondering how these people who lived in the projects dealt with having almost nothing. As well as the poverty they had to deal with, there was also drug abuse, police harassment, violence, emotional insecurity, theft...so horrifying, and even more so when you remember that it is a true story.

But it's not all bleak. These are children, after all, and children have a resiliency, a bouyancy of spirit that keeps them optimistic and sometimes unaware of the seriousness of the lives lived around them. That's what these children bring to their mother's life: HOPE.

An amazing story.

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