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The best-selling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of contest, course, privilege, and vitality and asks us to consider unpleasant moral questions in this probing, ambitious, psychologically wrenching book of two households - one dark colored, one white. During a awful heat influx in 1991 - the most severe in ten years - 10-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the tasks, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a lover. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, famished, and desperate, Anton shatters a windowpane and climbs out. Reducing his knee on the busted glass, he's covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mom, is discovered in a crack house significantly less than three blocks away, almost unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to, she repeatedly asks for her baby boy. She never meant to leave Anton - she went for a quick strike and was going right back, until her medicine dealer raped her and placed her high. Although bond between mom and son is extremely strong, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita would go to jail. The Harvard-educated child of an US senator, Judge David Coleman is a scion of northeastern white privilege. Needy to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage child, David uses his vitality and links to keep his new foster child, Anton, with him and his better half, Delores - activities that will have destructive effects in the a long time. Following in his implemented family's footsteps, Anton, too, increases within the establishment. However when he discovers the reality about his life, his labor and birth mom, and his implemented parents, this man of regulations must come to conditions with the moral complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most.
