内容简介：
Blu never thought surviving challenges such as growing up an American Child of African descent, under the same roof as a sometimes cruel (and certifiably abusive) mother, or that being one of only two progeny of an absentee-psycho-maniacal father, would present him a wayward apassa towards a life of splendor as a man. If growing up as Maamanas son did one thing, it reinforced a feeling that theread be nothing remotely close to happy times...ever. As a fifteen-year-old newlywed--and pregnant for the second time--she grew up alone amid the duplicitous trade of Pennsylvaniaas narcotics traffickers. And as she developed, she governed her family and her budding illicit drug business with the same iron fist. Blu engineers a watchful patience and a studious grace. He beats back the mean, all-too-often lethal repercussions of the wolves inhabiting the streets in aThe Hooda on two separate coasts of the country and enters manhood prepared to face the truth about life as he knows it.