Buck : a memoir

"An account of the author's youth in Zimbabwe and in violent Philadelphia street gangs explores how his life was shaped by his father's absence, his brother's imprisonment, and his mother's and sister's struggles with mental illness."
"MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to talented and accomplished American parents. 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 and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary. This is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic voice."
"-- -- Buck--Hector Tobar, -- Buck "Buck From the Hardcover edition."
""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 and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary. This is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic voice"--Back cover."@en