December 2015 - Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx

We're celebrating the end of the year with a book based on true events and based in the US called "Random Family, Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx" by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
 
Here's a Book Summary:
 
In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances - Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George, and Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar - Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies. Jessica and Boy George ride the wild adventure between riches and ruin, while Coco and Cesar stick closer to the street, all four caught in a precarious dance between survival and death. Friends get murdered; the DEA and FBI investigate Boy George; Cesar becomes a fugitive; Jessica and Coco endure homelessness, betrayal, the heartbreaking separation of prison, and, throughout it all, the insidious damage of poverty.
 
Charting the tumultuous cycle of the generations - as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation - LeBlanc slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and true story.
 
We will be meeting at the Embarcadero on Sunday December 13 at 3pm - Please NOTE the Time CHANGE to one hour later than usual.
 
Next Books To Read in 2016:
Jan 2016 - The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
 
Others to stay tune for 2016
- Compañeras - Zapatistas Women Stories by Hilary Klein
- A Woman in the Crossfire Diaries of the Syrian Revolution by Samar Yazbik
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein