Random Family. Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age In the Bronx
New York: Scribner, 2003. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth over gray paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver, original photo-illustrated dust jacket.
Inscribed first edition of American journalist and sociologist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s narrative nonfiction account of urban life. Framing the family structure as an improvised network shaped by hardship, Random Family traces the intertwined lives of Bronx natives Jessica, Coco, and Cesar as they navigate the pressures of poverty and the drug economy. Acclaimed as a defining work of literary journalism, it was named one of the Times Top 100 Books of the 21st Century, won the 2004 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Inscribed by Leblanc in blue pen to the title page: "To Jeannie, / With much hope / Adrian Nicole Leblanc." First printing with complete number row to copyright page. Light rubbing to spine-ends and board edges; unclipped dust jacket with minor soiling. Very good. Item #13021
$45.00