Down These Mean Streets
Feb 2016 · Graymalkin Media
4.7star
11 reviews
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Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in a new edition.
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4.7
11 reviews
Barbara Coleman
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July 21, 2020
Candidly honest about growing up amidst so many cultures and the struggle to find yourself within you own culture.
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Billy Russell
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April 30, 2023
Very captivating read many interesting twist
Tito Petrovitch
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February 27, 2024
Great read. One of my high school favorites
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