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The Corner
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood | David Simon, Edward Burns
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.
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Blaire
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My most recent non/fiction reads include, "the corner," "lab girl," and "Iran awakening." All of which cover very different topics - the impact of drugs on a community in Baltimore, life as a female scientist, and life as a lawyer in an oppressive regime. I learned a lot from each one. #recentnonfiction #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading

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A powerful work of journalism. Simon and burns spent a year with the people in west Baltimore and tell their stories of addiction, struggle, and survival with empathy and poignancy. They intermix these stories with commentary on how our country and policies have failed these neighborhoods and ignored the people in them. #litsyatoz #letterS #morethan400pages. (Appreciated the epilogue where they explained how they approached the reporting).

Megabooks Definitely adding this one to my TBR! 8y
Blaire @Ebooksandcooks if you've read the new Jim Crow, I think this is a good companion read. It provides some real context and humanity to lives on the corner and how our system fails in so many ways. 8y
Suet624 This book was published in 1997. Has anything changed at all since then?? 8y
Blaire @Suet624 not sure about Baltimore in particular, but the criminal justice system has changed quite a bit in the last 8 years. In particular the discrepancy in sentencing between crack and cocaine has been reduced and amounts for mandatory minimums have been changed. However, I think the statistics remain the same. I'd also assume that crack has been replaced somewhat by prescription opioids. 8y
Blaire But there is still a huge mass incarceration program, and benefits such as food stamps continue to be less than is needed to survive. 8y
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BeckyRoy Just started. I found recommendations for this after reading Evicted. 8y
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