Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty anddesperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems byeverything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the bestresults for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, morefulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series ofbrutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learnedabout what it truly means to fight for one's life.
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoirof artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age asa Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and forebodingbackwoods.
- ISBN10 154930335X
- ISBN13 9781549303357
- Publish Date 28 January 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lion Forge, LLc, The
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English