I hope you are, because this is a powerhouse of a memoir. If you aren’t sure, or have seen the cops in major metropolitan cities do low-income teenagers (and even those from the middle class) irreparable harm and no good (or not much), you might be in the right ballpark. If you know absolutely no street lexicon (USA), and if you regard the Philadelphia police force as brothers and comrades, keep your wallet in your pocket. It’s a huge blow to everyone when he draws hard time. Once he is there, however, he is tried as an adult for rape, for having sex with a 13 year old Caucasian. We never learn for sure whether he is sent to live with a relative in Arizona to keep his influence from affecting MK (too late) or because the local heat has a real itch for him. His brother is 16 and assumes that he won’t stay long behind bars for the things he does because he is a minor. By the time he is 12, MK has “favorite” porn artists, is sexually active, and doesn’t think twice before leaping into a stolen car alongside his brother, who goes by “Uzi”.
His brother is deep into gang life, running guns and drugs. His family is out of control, and consequently, so is he. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe, but the first time we meet him is in “Killadelphia, Pistolvania”. There’s just no other way to review this one.
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