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Title: Sad, yet emotionally uplifting tale of inner city life
Review: I happen to read a chapter of this book in an brochure from Doubleday and decided to test my interest in novels about minorities and gangs (I'm intially from small town midwest). Wow, what a blast of truth and a fresh new realization about everday life in south central Los Angeles. Toomer, narrator and main character, lives a life and experiences things everyday that most people could never deal with. I never expected a book that deals with all the bad things about inner city life to focus on the little bits of happiness and joy that its inhabitants find and turn those bits into something much bigger and more meaningful. I laughed, cried, and did not want the book to end.
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