In the Deep Heart's Core

by Michael Johnston

Robert Coles (Foreword)

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In the Deep Heart's Core is the uplifting story of young Teach for America volunteer who becomes an English teacher in a desperately impoverished African-American high school in the rural Mississippi Delta beset by gang violence, drug abuse, ruptured families and teen pregnancy-but among the sorrow and struggle he finds dignity and hope, and works to bring the nascent intellectual curiosity of his students to full flower.
  • ISBN10 0802140246
  • ISBN13 9780802140241
  • Publish Date 6 August 2003 (first published 9 September 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 240
  • Language English