'The book pleads with us to find the moral imagination to break the American pattern of racial abuse. The race has, in effect, split the community in three. The result is a devastatingly powerful yet reasoned tribute to a life lost too soon. With honesty and insight, Cuz circles around its subject, exposing it from all angles to reveal the shocking reality of a broken system. We learn what it's like to grow up in a city carved up by invisible gang borders and we learn how a generation has been lost. We get to know Michael himself through the eyes of a devoted relative, moving from his first steps to his first love through to the day of his arrest, his coming of age in prison, and his attempts to make up for lost time after his release. Condition: New ISBN 10: 1631493116 ISBN 13: 9781631493119 Seller. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. In this deeply personal yet clear-eyed memoir, Danielle Allen reconstructs her cousin's life to try and understand how this tragedy came to pass. is written by Danielle Allen and published by Liveright. After growing up in prison Michael was then released aged 26, only to be murdered three years later. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years behind bars. Danielle Allen is the James Conant Bryant University Professor at Harvard University and author of Cuz and Our Declaration, winner of the Parkman Prize.

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