Watkins account of growing up in Baltimore as the younger brother of one of Baltimore's biggest drug dealers. Watkins does an admirable job of depicting all the vicissitudes of life on his mean streets. He recounts how his big brother Bip died violently, and how he, D, let his and his brother's dreams fall apart for a while.
D started out at Georgetown but depression took its toll on him. He ended up dealing his brothers drugs, and then more of his own, but slowly works his way out of that life. An interesting book. Interesting sidenote: Christa, who first told me about this book, also told me that I had already blogged about it, when I had not. Why would she do that?
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