Random Family

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · 2003 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · Modern / American · Contemporary

Over roughly eleven years the author follows Jessica, Coco and their families in the Bronx through a heroin dealer's rise, his imprisonment, pregnancies, welfare offices and the births of the next generation. The people are named and their lives run through the book as a long chronicle. A work of immersion reportage, treated as a landmark of narrative non-fiction about urban poverty.

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