![]() ![]() But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. Champ is trying to do right by his mom 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 program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. In his commanding debut autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was 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. ![]() Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. ![]() Gaines Award for Literary Excellenceįinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fictionįinalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prizeįinalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award ![]()
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