Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Paperback)

from marysargent

A remarkable book. Nonfiction that reads like a novel about Latinos growing up in the Bronx, written by a reporter who hung out with them for over ten years, people who, she says "opened their lives" to her. However, she is never a presence in the telling of these events, there is no "I" narrator...

from goldiebear

This book fascinated me. It took me a very long time to read, because it was so intense. I like the author's style of writing by the fact that she referred to everyone by name and not pronouns. Because there are so many players in the book I know I would be utterly confused if she didn't state pe...

from Luvsaless

Haven't read the book yet but "Jessica"in the book is a friend of mine we speak everyday luv her she has been thru a lot in life but she is a tough cookie

from gillis.sarah

I had to read this book for a class I took during my first year of college. I didn't expect to like it at first, but then I began to read and couldn't put the book down. The author spent years living among the subjects of this book and gathering research for it and it shows. The book is detailed,...

from AlisonY

Random Family was written over 10 years by LeBlanc who immersed herself in the lives of an extended family of Puerto Ricans living in serious poverty in the Bronx. As a non-fiction book this is a little old now in relation to it's subject matter (written in 2003, chronicling from 1985 to 2000), b...