Winner Whiting Writers' Award Winner Ernest J. Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver Mitchell S. This is a memorable, powerful novel and Mitchell S. Honest in its portrayal, with cadences that dazzle, The Residue Years signals the arrival of a writer set to awe. Jackson 4.5 (2) Paperback (Reprint) 18.00 Paperback 18.00 eBook 10.99 Audio MP3 on CD 9. The Residue Years is the story of a man and woman trying their best to overcome the enormous hurdles life has put in front of them, two portraits of the courageous battle to simply do one's best. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart. Jacksons debut novel The Residue Years and his nonfiction book Survival Math received wide. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. Award-winning author and well-regarded speaker Mitchel S. Champ is trying to do right by his mum and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. Grace is just out of a drug treatment programme, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. This dynamic book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of hustle, and the destructive power of addictionall framed within the experience of Jackson, his family, and his community. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Jackson's autobiographical documentary, The Residue Years, Jackson revisits his boyhood haunts in Portland. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Jackson writes what it was like to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. The Residue Years also won The Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was short-listed for the Center.

The residue years by mitchell s jackson