When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era Binding:Paperback the lives of his refugee

the lives of his refugee parents

Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes

and during an inadvertent visit to the spirit realm

and--by wondering "Where are they

especially in the Black community

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era Binding:Paperback the lives of his refugeeLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A vivid and frank (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a communitys ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.The Washington Post A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic era in America