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Strength and resilience fuel an urban teen�s fight for survival in this acclaimed novel from Bil Wright that �delivers a knock-out punch� (Venus Magazine). Fourteen-year-old Louis Bowman lives in a boxing ring�a housing project circa 1968�and is fighting �just to get to the end of the round.� Sharing the ring is his mother, Jeanette Stamps, a ferociously stubborn woman battling for her own dreams to be realized; his stepfather, Ben Stamps, the would-be savior, who becomes the sparring partner to them both; and the enigmatic Ray Anthony Robinson, the neighborhood �hoodlum� in purple polyester pants, who sets young Louis�s heart spinning with the first stirrings of sexual longing. Bil Wright deftly evokes an unrelenting world with quirky humor and a clear-eyed perspective in this �deeply felt coming-of-age novel� that �reads like the best of memoirs� (School Library Journal).