Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Paperback

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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, PaperbackSelected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family's triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. "Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction The standard bearer of embedded reportage." Matthew Desmond, author of

Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further

From family holidays to everyday tasks such as pumping gas or taking out the trash

ovarian cysts

and redemption collide

Their mama refuses to divulge the special ingredient in her coveted panettone

using the Force to raid the cookie jar

Barbecue Chicken

everyone from Frank Sinatra to Carol Burnett to Sam Elliott

Author: Marie-Helene Bertino

Munger advises in Poor Charlie's Almanack

Being a defective marks me in the eyes of the Solis Fae

Beginning in Genesis and ending with Revelation