Random Family

The story told is nothing new to any city nor to the Bronx, which has formed many families with loose affiliation ranging from blood ties to jail allegiance, shared lovers and common down falls. I'm not sure if other neighborhoods and areas of the Bronx have such ties but Leblanc's immersion into the culture was clear in both her observations on the mundane and routine daily grind and the close ties to life lessons on womanhood poverty and entrenchment..I truly enjoyed the novel which eerily reflected the life of friends relatives and the struggle with developing womanhood in the petri dish of poverty and loveless romances... Definitely tugs at the old heart strings