Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc academia Sammy Clay

Sammy Clay

and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent

menacing and awe inspiring

the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together

Old San Francisco

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc academia Sammy ClaySelected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one familys triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfictionThe standard bearer of embedded reportage. Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In