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    When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: t/c

    By Timothy Black

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    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 4, 2009
    ISBN9780307378347
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    When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: t/c
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    Timothy Black

    Award-winning author Timothy Black was born in the Deep South where he hit the road at an early age and quickly learned it hit back harder. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, he studied Geology, Astronomy, and the Occult, ending up with a degree in Philosophy that twists through his writing. After traveling the world to find his great loves he settled down in the Pacific Northwest, where he writes unique twists on disturbing fiction. A serial killer of coffee and whiskey sours, he stays one step ahead of retribution with a rebellious cackle.

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    • 4/5
      This book is an informative, twenty-year study of three brothers, Julio, Fausto, Sammy Riveria, and their transition from Puerto Rico to the U.S. The author describes the ethnic and poverty issues barring their efforts to obtain bi-lingual education, fair paying jobs, decent housing, and necessary healthcare. It was well written, easy to understand, and an eyeopener. The lack of rehab opportunities for drug users was particularly disappointing, as were the prison conditions that addicts face without clinical help. Sad to know these conditions still affect lives today and are subject to constantly changing political climates. It makes you realize how critical your participation in the voting process is.
    • 5/5
      Even if you've lived in the US all your life, you might never have thought about Springfield, Massachusetts for more than a second. It's a small city, not a state capital or big industrial powerhouse, and isn't on popular travel routes unless you take Peter Pan buses around New England. Nevertheless, Springfield has a major industrial past, and is important to the current generation as a majority-minority city with a strong Puerto Rican community. The author follows the three brothers and their families from high school through their family formation and career years, and like an engaged sociologist connected their lives to their origins, surroundings, and ability or inability to fit in the rigid American institutions they encountered. Still personal, including all the tragedy of inter-generational poverty and making a living with a felony conviction.
    • 5/5
      A brilliant, passionate, eloquent, absorbing work of sociology. Black tells the story of three Puerto Rican brothers growing up in Springfield, Mass., showing us how their lives are shaped by social forces far beyond their control. The product of 18 years of ethnographic research, When a Heart Turns Rock Solid offers an intimate look at the struggles of three young men together with careful analyses of the impact of various political and economic changes on the lives of the urban poor. It is compelling reading and an important book.
    • 4/5
      Engaging read...but you have to be focused on this book. A lot of information, a lot of honesty....wordy, but excellent. Great writer. Captivating story. Would make a great addition to literature for a Sociology college course.