Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx Aparna Verma With the striking economy and

With the striking economy and lyricism that animate his work as a poet

from her personal relationships to her own perception of herself

the youngest of three

shocking twists

but as the young woman before her

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx Aparna Verma With the striking economy andSelected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one familys triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfictionThe standard bearer of embedded reportage. Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In