- Inner cities, Cas, Études de, Families, Social history
The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- First published
- January 28, 2003
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning, Flamingo, EDITIONS DE L'OLIVIER
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9781439124895
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“Jessica lived on Tremont Avenue, on one of the poorer blocks in a very poor sectionof the Bronx.”
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