Always Running
by Luis Rodriguez
La vida loca and the cost of surviving it.
you want to understand gang life as a response to abandonment rather than a moral failure
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Rodriguez joined a gang in East Los Angeles at twelve. By eighteen he had survived more violence, death, and police brutality than most people encounter in a lifetime. He wrote this memoir as a letter to his son, who was heading down the same road. A dispatch from inside the Chicano experience of Los Angeles — the poverty, the racism, the gang as the only community that would have him, and the literature that eventually saved his life.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- Founding Lies
