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Also by Kai Wright:

The African American Experience, January 2009
Paperback
Drifting Toward Love, January 2009
Paperback
Drifting Toward Love, January 2008
Hardcover

DRIFTING TOWARD LOVE
By: Kai Wright

Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York

Beacon Press
January 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0807079685
EAN: 9780807079683
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Multicultural

Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and passions that are typical of any young person coming of age. But they do so with few resources—material or emotional—in a world where the cards are stacked against their success.

Journalist Kai Wright paints vivid, intimate portraits of these young men's sometimes tragic, often heroic lives. Manny is a working-class city kid making awkward teenage discoveries about his sexuality. In a troubled relationship with his mother and a stifling, combative school environment, he clumsily elbows out enough space to find himself. In the process, he and best friend Jason move from a budding love based on videogames and music to a troubled bond held together by drugs and sex for money. In one devastating instant, Manny will realize the demons Jason truly faces. Out of the wreckage of the life he builds with Jason, Manny drifts into an explosive social movement, fighting for public space for queer youth, and finds his calling as an activist.

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Talk of the Nation - April 29, 2008