New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2023). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, one which "recounts the coming-of-age of a young man for whom poverty, violence, drug abuse and racism were simply facts of daily life." Written mostly in the third person and "set in Philadelphia, largely in the late 1990s, this chronicles ThomasÕs journey, as a Black kid growing up in the city, toward awareness - and softness, and confidence, and discernibility. We meet his family, including his grandfather and mother, individuals both harmful and harmed by the world. . . White supremacyÕs many branches wrap themselves around Thomas and the denizens of his experiences - in the verbal and physical abuse, homophobia and misogynoir in his immediate vicinity, and in the economic disadvantages weathered by his larger Philly communities. But the stream running through it all is the protagonist himself: He watches. He attempts. He screws up. He tries again." (Bryan Washington, NY Times) SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp.