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Ta-Nehisi Coates recalls growing up in West Baltimore in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in a neighborhood where violence and drugs were part of daily life. Raised by a former Black Panther father who demanded his sons learn to read and think, Coates writes about his brother, his fear of the streets, his search for identity, and his path toward manhood and writing. A memoir of fatherhood, family and survival.