Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
- ISBN-10
- 0716731436
- ISBN-13
- 9780716731436
- Category
- Poverty
- Pages
- 421
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Author
- William Finnegan
Description
Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives revealed in these portraits: a fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed when crack arrives; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb.
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