内容简介：
A group of friends grow up in a working-class neighborhood in the city of Philadelphia. It could be set in any crowded city on the northeastern seaboard of the United States. This is the story of their unsheltered and rather adventurous lives, where survival is the name of the game. Sometimes you make it and sometimes you donat. Heyaitas a hard life out here, donat you know? Written as a collection of poems in the stream of consciousness style, the book is a fast read of the fast lives of these friends.