There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America Audiobook (Free)

This national bestseller chronicles the real story of two brothers coming old in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mom and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang affects, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies.

Immersed within their lives for just two years, Kotlowitz provides us this classic rendering of developing up poor in America’s cities. YOU CAN FIND No Children Right here was selected by the brand new York Community Library as one of the 150 most significant books from the twentieth hundred years. It was afterwards made into a television film for ABC, produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey.