Osage Avenue: Coming of Age in the Summer of MOVE
On May 13, 1985 the city of Philadelphia did the unthinkable: dropped a bomb on its own people. 6221 Osage Avenue—the home of the anarcho-primitivist MOVE organization—burned, along with sixty-one nearby homes.
Fourteen-year-old Trigger witnesses the bombing and its aftermath. He's left to make sense of what happened and what it means for his own struggle to survive. A devastating car accident took his mother, confi ned his older sister to a wheelchair, and left his father despondent and angry. Trapped in his damaged
community, Trigger wanders between the ashes of MOVE and the Philadelphia Zoo, where he escapes the turmoil at home and works part-time for his boss, a kindly man who takes Trigger under his wing.
Based on a true story, this narrative biography covers one heated summer in the life of a wounded boy caught in a broken neighborhood and how he deals with life, hoping to emerge in a better place.
"Tight, sensual, deeply textured, fourteen-year-old Trigger's story is an objective exploration of the racial and economic inequities that beset 1985 Philadelphia and do so today." —Mike Freeman, author of Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
"This is a beautiful, challenging, gripping story that, like the MOVE bombing itself, forces us to confront the systemic evils all around us to which we've become complacent." —Prof. Richard Kent Evans, author of MOVE: An American Religion
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Fourteen-year-old Trigger witnesses the bombing and its aftermath. He's left to make sense of what happened and what it means for his own struggle to survive. A devastating car accident took his mother, confi ned his older sister to a wheelchair, and left his father despondent and angry. Trapped in his damaged
community, Trigger wanders between the ashes of MOVE and the Philadelphia Zoo, where he escapes the turmoil at home and works part-time for his boss, a kindly man who takes Trigger under his wing.
Based on a true story, this narrative biography covers one heated summer in the life of a wounded boy caught in a broken neighborhood and how he deals with life, hoping to emerge in a better place.
"Tight, sensual, deeply textured, fourteen-year-old Trigger's story is an objective exploration of the racial and economic inequities that beset 1985 Philadelphia and do so today." —Mike Freeman, author of Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
"This is a beautiful, challenging, gripping story that, like the MOVE bombing itself, forces us to confront the systemic evils all around us to which we've become complacent." —Prof. Richard Kent Evans, author of MOVE: An American Religion
Osage Avenue: Coming of Age in the Summer of MOVE
On May 13, 1985 the city of Philadelphia did the unthinkable: dropped a bomb on its own people. 6221 Osage Avenue—the home of the anarcho-primitivist MOVE organization—burned, along with sixty-one nearby homes.
Fourteen-year-old Trigger witnesses the bombing and its aftermath. He's left to make sense of what happened and what it means for his own struggle to survive. A devastating car accident took his mother, confi ned his older sister to a wheelchair, and left his father despondent and angry. Trapped in his damaged
community, Trigger wanders between the ashes of MOVE and the Philadelphia Zoo, where he escapes the turmoil at home and works part-time for his boss, a kindly man who takes Trigger under his wing.
Based on a true story, this narrative biography covers one heated summer in the life of a wounded boy caught in a broken neighborhood and how he deals with life, hoping to emerge in a better place.
"Tight, sensual, deeply textured, fourteen-year-old Trigger's story is an objective exploration of the racial and economic inequities that beset 1985 Philadelphia and do so today." —Mike Freeman, author of Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
"This is a beautiful, challenging, gripping story that, like the MOVE bombing itself, forces us to confront the systemic evils all around us to which we've become complacent." —Prof. Richard Kent Evans, author of MOVE: An American Religion
Fourteen-year-old Trigger witnesses the bombing and its aftermath. He's left to make sense of what happened and what it means for his own struggle to survive. A devastating car accident took his mother, confi ned his older sister to a wheelchair, and left his father despondent and angry. Trapped in his damaged
community, Trigger wanders between the ashes of MOVE and the Philadelphia Zoo, where he escapes the turmoil at home and works part-time for his boss, a kindly man who takes Trigger under his wing.
Based on a true story, this narrative biography covers one heated summer in the life of a wounded boy caught in a broken neighborhood and how he deals with life, hoping to emerge in a better place.
"Tight, sensual, deeply textured, fourteen-year-old Trigger's story is an objective exploration of the racial and economic inequities that beset 1985 Philadelphia and do so today." —Mike Freeman, author of Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
"This is a beautiful, challenging, gripping story that, like the MOVE bombing itself, forces us to confront the systemic evils all around us to which we've become complacent." —Prof. Richard Kent Evans, author of MOVE: An American Religion
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| BN ID: | 2940185854372 |
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| Publisher: | Riddle Brook Publishing LLC |
| Publication date: | 10/11/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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