Cuz ; or, the life and times of Michael A. / Danielle Allen.
Cuz ; or, the life and times of Michael A. / Danielle Allen.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Call Numbers
G 2018/0243
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Part I: Release and resurrection. Garden party, July 2009 ; Release day, June 2006 ; The investigation, July 2009 ; Getting started, June-July 2006 ; Job, July 2006 ; Investigation, July 2009 ; School, August 2006 ; Funeral, July 27, 2009 ; Apartment, August 2006 ; Hitting bottom, November 2006 ; Th...
Publication information
Publisher
New York Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
The author relates how her cousin was imprisoned at the age of fifteen for attempted carjacking and how she took him in upon his release, only to lose him to the deadly streets of South Central L.A.
"A shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen's Cuz seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end u...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Cuz ; or, the life and times of Michael A. / Danielle Allen.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Call Numbers
G 2018/0243
Record Identifier
74VKVGEvxldg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGEvxldg
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ISBN
1631493116
9781631493119
DDC
305.242108996073
MMS ID
991024153618802626
