Pov Culture « My Political Side

Subtitled Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, Random Family made it clear to me that being poor in a blighted place where every else was poor, except the drug dealers, who were rich for a while but then went to jail or got ... To me and to my family, it was way station: although my mother never left it, I knew that I would, like a traveler on a layover who knows she won't spend the rest of her life in a grungy hotel room in Minneapolisâ€"just one night. ...