It's 1969 in Oakland, California, but life is anything but groovy for 12-year-old Troy Hunter.
The public school system has misdiagnosed him as learning disabled and his mother's bullying, morphine-addicted boyfriend, Leon, wont leave the couch in their cramped apartment in a Black Panther run housing project.
Troy becomes increasingly lonely and afraid until the night Brother Nate shows up, four soldiers deep, and banishes Leon for good.
A talented but reluctant local leade.
From something bad, paperback/Lt Lewis
