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Deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in the author's memoir of gang life, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodriguez offers a unique book of change.12

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9781583225646

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Rodriguez is a relentless truth-teller, an authentic visionary, a man of profound compassion but, at the same time, a bitter enemy of complacency and conventional wisdom. - Los Angeles Times Book Review Never sentimentalising or sensationalising his materials, Rodriguez writes honestly and incisively from experience, knowledge and compassion. - Publishers Weekly A wonderful book, a clarion call for justice, and a powerful redemptive journey, rich with the author's warm poetic voice, devoid of bitterness but filled with courage, love and yearning. - Jonathan Kozol

"""Rodriguez is a relentless truth-teller, an authentic visionary, a man of profound compassion but, at the same time, a bitter enemy of complacency and conventional wisdom."" - Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Never sentimentalising or sensationalising his materials, Rodriguez writes honestly and incisively from experience, knowledge and compassion."" - Publishers Weekly ""A wonderful book, a clarion call for justice, and a powerful redemptive journey, rich with the author's warm poetic voice, devoid of bitterness but filled with courage, love and yearning."" - Jonathan Kozol"

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Luis Rodriguez, best known for his autobiography, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., is the author of The Concrete River and America is Her Name. He is the winner of a National Book Award, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for poetry.

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