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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days In L.A.
Luis J. Rodriguez
Touchstone
September 2005
On Sale: September 6, 2005
262 pages
ISBN: 0743276914
EAN: 9780743276917
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A.
gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture,
he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests,
then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide,
and senseless acts of street crime claimed friends and
family members.Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the
barrio through education and the power of words and
successfully broke free from years of violence and
desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning Chicano
poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more --
until his son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child
by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir
that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions
against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its
participants. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal,
Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled
with hope, insight, and a hard-learned lesson for the next
generation.
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