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A memoir of Thomas’ coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem in 1928. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. It is an unsparing document of Thomas’ plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when he found his talent for poetry. |
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