Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest A Penguin Classic With wit and realism, David Haynes presents...
In this coming-of-age story, Marshall, a wisecracking African-American teenager in suburban Saint Louis, deals with his mother's desertion of the family and his friend's abusive father.