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The Author Relates How Her Cousin Was Imprisoned At The Age Of Fifteen For Attempted Carjacking And How She Took Him In Upon His Release, Only To Lose Him To The Deadly Streets Of South Central L.a. A Shattering Work That Shifts Between A Woman's Private Anguish Over The Loss Of Her Beloved Baby Cousin And A Scholar's Fierce Critique Of The American Prison System, Danielle Allen's Cuz Seeks Answers To What, For Many Years, Felt Unanswerable. Why? Why Did Her Cousin, A Precocious Young Man Who Dreamed Of Being A Firefighter And A Writer, End Up Dead? Why Did He Languish In Prison? And Why, At The Age Of Fifteen, Was He In An Alley In South Central Los Angeles, Holding A Gun While Trying To Steal Someone's Car? Cuz Means Both 'cousin' And 'because.' In This Searing Memoir, Allen Unfurls A 'new American Story' About A World Tragically Transformed By The Sudden Availability Of Narcotics And The Rise Of Street Gangs--a Collision, Followed By A Reactionary War On Drugs, That Would Devastate Not Only South Central L.a. But Virtually Every Urban Center In The Nation.^ At Thirteen, Sensitive, Talkative Michael Allen Was Suddenly Tossed Into This Cauldron, A Violent World Where He Would Be T

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Author

Danielle S. Allen

Publisher

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631493119

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Sociology

Rating

3.45 / 5 (127 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14