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020 _a9781631493119 (hardcover)
041 _aeng
050 1 4 _aE185.97.A364
_bA425 2017
082 0 0 _a305.242
100 1 _aAllen, Danielle S.
245 1 0 _aCuz :
_bthe life and times of Michael A. /
_cDanielle Allen.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 1 _aNew York :
_bLiveright Publishing Corporation,
_c[2017]
300 _axii, 243 pages :
_billustratins, map ;
_c22 cm
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aPart I: Release and resurrection -- Garden party, July 2009 -- Release day, June 2006 -- The investigation, July 2009 -- Getting started, June-July 2006 -- Job, July 2006 -- Investigation, July 2009 -- School, August 2006 -- Funeral, July 27, 2009 -- Apartment, August 2006 -- Hitting bottom, November 2006 -- The end, August 2008-July 2009 -- Part II: Inferno -- Crime and punishment -- Where was our family? Where were the lawyers? -- Milestones -- Norco -- Inferno, in Michael's words -- Visiting 1.0 -- Visiting 2.0 -- Dizzy -- The biggest wildfire in California history -- Part III: Unforgiving world -- Fire and ice -- The single mother and the great white whale -- First steps -- "Sis, run!" -- Gangbanging -- a definition -- How not to help your kids -- the limit on helping your kids -- City of angels -- The end -- My heart's locket -- Coda: What's next?
520 _aThe author relates how her cousin was imprisoned at the age of fifteen for attempted carjacking and how she took him in upon his release, only to lose him to the deadly streets of South Central L.A.
650 0 _aAfrican American young men
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAfrican American young men
_xSocial conditions
_y21st century.
650 0 _aAfrican American juvenile delinquents.
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