When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets

by Timothy Black

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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
  • ISBN10 0307454878
  • ISBN13 9780307454874
  • Publish Date 24 August 2010 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books