Live to See the Day Format:Paperback When her mother breaks her

When her mother breaks her decade-long silence and tragedy strikes

You’d think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him

from National Book Award winner Imani Perry

real and imagined

By turns satirical and philosophical

Live to See the Day Format:Paperback When her mother breaks herAn indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in America Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. This is the story of their coming of age, which is beset by violencethe violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration,