Way past cool
By: by Jess Mowry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Gangs -- California -- Oakland -- Fiction
Description: A gang of young African American boys struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak turf in Oakland when a 16-year-old drug dealer instigates a fight with them. But the dealer's unwilling bodyguard emerges as the key player in a drama that illuminates America's urban reality in a totally fresh way. "Should be read by all of mainstream America".--Terry McMillan, author of Waiting to Exhale.