Honest in its portrayal, with cadences that dazzle, The Residue Years signals the arrival of a writer set to awe. 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. 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. 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 neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Jackson 3.90 1,284 ratings223 reviews Mitchell S. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. 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 neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction Finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Mitchell S. His debut novel The Residue Years was praised by publications including The New. Jackson Starting at 0.99 Starting at 1. Winner Whiting Writers' Award Winner Ernest J. He published the e-book Oversoul: Stories and Essays in to critical acclaim. All Editions of The Residue Years: from Pulitzer prize-winner Mitchell S.

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