Thoughts For Food

By Alwy Jones

In South Central Los Angeles, the streets don't deal in second chances. Angalia Kioo has spent his life caught between two futures; one promised in the pages of college textbooks and scholarship letters, the other lurking in the alleys behind liquor stores and pawn shops. Raised by a mother barely holding their world together and haunted by the choices of a father he barely remembers, Angalia knows the math of survival in a city where loyalty is currency and debts are paid in blood.

Thoughts for Food is a raw, unflinching portrait of generational poverty, loyalty as a trap, and the fatal gravity of a world designed to claim its own. Told in sharp, lyrical prose, this is the story of a boy too smart for the streets that raised him and too loyal to leave them behind.

A novel about debt, consequence, and the unforgiving weight of inheritance. In this neighborhood, you don't escape.
You run until you can't.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FGWLTQ9Y
• ISBN13: 9798231652709
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Alwy Jones
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"