Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Selected 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 family's triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. "Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound,...

One of the best works of investigative journalism in years, Random Family tells the story of growing up in the Latino ghettos of the Bronx—a story of drug-dealers, young mothers, poverty, and violence—a family saga like no other. It's 1985 in the Bronx, and teenagers Jessica and Coco are dating drug dealers and getting pregnant. Fifteen years later, they each...