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is a powerful story about a boy who defeats the odds, rising above the expected outcome for a child raised in poverty. Subjected to neglectful, abusive men, Anthony Owens still becomes a successful man and the caring, responsible father he never had. Owens is one of the underrepresented voices in American – a black man raised by a single mother struggling to make ends meet, he speaks for the voices that so often go unheard. Anthony is a child who made it out against the odds of poverty, an absentee father, trauma, violence, and gang brutality. Breaking the cycle of his circumstances he makes a way out of no way.
is an inspiring story that gives hope to all children of poverty.
is a must-read book in a time when society is looking at stories that speak to the black American experience; this is a story that is unapologetically authentic.