The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson

In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. Terrific' The Times 'A wrenchingly beautiful debut by a writer to be reckoned with' Jesmyn Ward Mitchell S. 'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Jackson writes what it was like to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice that.

In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart.'This novel is written with a breathtaking, exhilarating assurance and wit. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. In his commanding debut autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon.

The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson