"Memoir recounting the author's childhood, struggle to overcome a legacy of anger and violence, and journey to become a voice for others"--

In the spirit of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writer and activist Kevin Powell’s memoir—“

"Memoir recounting the author's childhood, struggle to overcome a legacy of anger and violence, and journey to become a voice for others"--

Discusses what black males fear most, their longing for intimacy, the pitfalls of patriarchy, and the destruction of oppression through redemption and love.

Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this “profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting” (Dominiqu