Title: The old neighborhood
Description: The Old Neighborhood is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder, his friends and family drag him down into a pit of violence that reaches a bloody impasse when his elder sister begins dating a rival gang member.
Subjects: Race relations, Families, Gangs, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Teenage boys, Street life
Places: Chicago (Ill.)