In this coming-of-age story, Marshall, a wisecracking African-American teenager in suburban Saint Louis, deals with his mother's desertion of the family and his friend's abusive father.
- ISBN10 0606137408
- ISBN13 9780606137409
- Publish Date 1 February 1998 (first published 1 April 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Turtleback Books
- Edition Turtleback School & Library ed.
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 179
- Language English