num_pages: 464
description: A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
language: English
title: When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets
publisher: Vintage