Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (August 20, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812993411
ISBN-13: 978-0812993417
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
A rebellious boy's journey through the wilds of urban America and the
shrapnel of a self-destructing family--this is the riveting story of a
generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice. MK Asante was born
in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation's dance
company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black
studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a
teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North
Philadelphia. Now he was alone--his mother in a mental hospital, his father
gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the
country--and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and
spiritually, by any means necessary."
"Buck" is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through
the most unconventional teachers--outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic
strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an
alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of
paper. It's a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an
inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and
redeem us.
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