"A bright and sensitive teen, Joe Walsh is the youngest in a big, mixed-race Chicago family. After Joe witnesses his heroin-addicted oldest brother commit a brutal gangland murder, his friends and loved ones systematically drag him deeper into a black pit of violence that reaches a bloody impasse when his sister begins dating a rival gang member"--P. [4] of cover.
Contents
Cover; Praise; Title Page; Prologue; Part One: Childhood; Chapter 1: The Last Exit on Lakeshore; Chapter 2: Da; Chapter 3: The Lake; Chapter 4: Quark; Chapter 5: Seeds; Chapter 6: Low Rider; Chapter 7: Black and White; Chapter 8: Seagull; Part Two: Adolescence; Chapter 9: Simon; Chapter 10: The Old Man; Chapter 11: Assassins; Chapter 12: Civil War; Chapter 13: The Jungle; Chapter 14: The Good Girls; Chapter 15: Lincoln; Chapter 16: Jailbird; Chapter 17: Physical Science; Chapter 18: Fusion; Chapter 19: Peoples; Chapter 20: Virgins; Chapter 21: Ma; Part Three: Juvenile; Chapter 22: Dark Matter.
Chapter 23: NucleusChapter 24: Enrico Fermi; Chapter 25: Lovebird; Chapter 26: Wormhole; Chapter 27: Jag Offs; Chapter 28: Electron Positron Annihilation; Chapter 29: Pigeons; Chapter 30: Collider; Chapter 31: Super Nova; Chapter 32: Flight; Acknowledgments; Also from Curbside Splendor; Copyright.