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By M.K. Asante
#8859. A rebellious boys journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family – this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly new voice.
MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nations dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia.
Now he was alone – his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the country – and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.
Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachers – outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper.
This is a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us.
272 pages. Softcover. 2014.
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