- African Americans, Drug abuse, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for.
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Grave, earnest, spare and character-led.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Alice Childress
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 126
- Publisher
- Speak, Penguin USA, Inc., Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812418095
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“Now I am thirteen, but when I was a chile, it was hard to be a chile because my block is a tough block and my school is a tough school.”
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