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

summoning them to a small town in North Dakota

Devastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly

Luce rescues a drowning man from the sea

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