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Title: I've heard this story several times but it remains interesting
Review: Geoffrey Canada has a strong authorial voice, and his description of the violent hierarchy among young men in the south Bronx in the 1960s shows long rumination. He describes how he was indoctrinated and the various social cues that determined who would have to fight whom, and who might have to just be beaten. He recognizes that the specific lessons that he learned were long ago rendered irrelevant by the introduction on handguns, but that others may benefit from his understanding of the implications of constant fear for young men and women.I live in central Harlem and I have heard Canada tell these stories before, and I feared this comic might be a redundant waste of time. However, the format serves the content well and may make it more accessible to the youth who really ought to read it. My only complaint about the book is that the text becomes unreadable against a black background, and some pages were partially cyphers as a result.
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