Rosario does not have an easy life. He's trying to move past his days as a banger. His girlfriend is going to have a baby, he's finishing his G.E.D., and he's about to get a promotion at work. There is one problem: his best friend from the Barrios Kings, his former gang, has just gotten out of...
Ein Mann schreibt ein ausgesprochenes Frauenbuch und nennt es "The Adventures of Flash Jackson". Ich will nicht wissen, wie viele Männer kurz vor der Mitte aufgegeben haben.Für die deutsche Übersetzung wurde der Titel "Sommer auf der Schattenseite" gewählt, was schon weniger Assoziationen auf ein...
Jefferson says he’ll wait outside while I go in. He doesn’t want to interfere. So I head into the postal center by myself. Yolanda is standing behind the counter. She’s got a pile of rubber bands in front of her. She’s sorting them according to color. There’s nobody in line. It’s just me and her....
Nathan Sidoli and Michael Wolfe were also helpful, and Paul Romaine gave generously of his time and energy in helping me see the world through the eyes of a professional stock trader. Larry Finlay, my editor in the U.K., has been a constant source of optimism and encouragement. Without these peop...
But it doesn’t have a sad ending either. It’s a story about being a mom, so it has a lot of happy and sad in it. Like motherhood itself, it has no ending at all. That’s because you never stop being a mom. You don’t stop when your kids go to sleep at night. You don’t stop when they grow up and mov...