A01=Caleb Alexander
Author_Caleb Alexander
Black
black and brown boys
black characters
books about black community
books about black experience
books about black lives
Category=FBA
coming of age
crooked cop
death
drugs
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eq_fiction
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eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
Gang violence
gangs
jail
murder
police
race
shoot outs
shootings
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781593091200
- Weight: 411g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eastside is a coming-of-age tale set among the backdrop of inner-city gang violence in the early '90s.
Eastside is about mothers struggling and supporting one another as they match in a seemingly endless procession to the cemetery to bury their children. After his brother’s death, Travon “Tre” Robinson tries keep his brother’s dying wish to stay straight and narrow as he struggles to distance his life from deeper entanglement with the Wheatley Courts Gangstas.
Unrepentantly crooked police officers, violent gangland shoot-outs, blazing car chases, petty drug dealing, ruthless armed robberies, a psychotic seventeen-year-old albino gang member, and the haunting legacy of a long dead brother, complete the complex panoply that is Eastside.
Eastside is about mothers struggling and supporting one another as they match in a seemingly endless procession to the cemetery to bury their children. After his brother’s death, Travon “Tre” Robinson tries keep his brother’s dying wish to stay straight and narrow as he struggles to distance his life from deeper entanglement with the Wheatley Courts Gangstas.
Unrepentantly crooked police officers, violent gangland shoot-outs, blazing car chases, petty drug dealing, ruthless armed robberies, a psychotic seventeen-year-old albino gang member, and the haunting legacy of a long dead brother, complete the complex panoply that is Eastside.
Caleb Alexander is a successful ghostwriter who has written several Essence bestselling novels. His most recent novel, Eastside, was handpicked by Zane to launch the Strebor in the Streetz publication line. He currently lives in Converse, Texas. Visit www.calebalexanderonline.com.
