" Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe."- The Washington PostĪ fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. "A status report on the American Dream gets its power the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives."- Time Description From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today.
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