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Review: "When a Heart Turns Rock Solid" probes Lives of 3 Springfield MA brothers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Review: 'Rock' probes the lives of three Springfield brothers By THE DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE Wednesday, August 12, 2009 "When a Heart Turns Rock Solid" (Pantheon Books), a window into the lives of three Puerto Rican brothers in Springfield slides open during their teenage years, affording readers a raw glimpse of their struggles with love, drugs and violence in a sociological study that spans nearly two decades. We learn how Sammy Rivera does lines of coke in his sixth-grade classroom; how his older brother Fausto watches as an inmate eviscerates another with his bare hands; how the eldest brother, Julio, is the glue that holds the family together. "When a Heart Turns Rock Solid" succeeds because author Timothy Black makes readers care about his subjects - or at least their stories - which are presented in a somewhat sympathetic light...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).