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Regina Harris has escaped the poverty, drugs, and crimes of Harlem's streets, and launched a successful career as a journalist. But even as she hobnobs with the city's movers and shakers, Regina stays uneasily tied to her friends in the old neighborhood and their struggles to make lives for themselves.

This sassy, shocking autobiographical novel from the author of Uptown Dreams captures the racial tensions, the hardships, and the bonds that formed between families and neighbors growing up poor in Harlem. You'd be angry, too, if you grew up poorer than poor in Harlem in the 1960s and '70s, a place of unrelenting violence, racism, crime, rape, scamming, drinking, and drugging. Living with a dad permanently checked out in Bellevue and a mom at ...