Philadelphia Tribune, The, May 10th, 2002
Lee, Rotan E. Philadelphia Tribune, The 05-10-2002 Reading Geoffrey Canada's Fist Stick Knife Gun chilled my bones and stoked the angry coals of my soul. A brutally honest and starkly septic account pf his Bronx childhood, the author's surreal story of a child's life on the mean streets--a haunting image of America's sloppy democracy and a reminder that today's bad boy is tomorrow's nightmare. Canada ends his gripping memoir: "We have failed our children. They live in a world where danger lurks all around them and their playgrounds are filled with broken glass, crack vials, and sudden death....
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