Young Junius Seth Harwood | ISBN : 1-935562-27-4

Young Junius

Author: Seth Harwood

Publisher: F&W Media, Incorporated

Publication Date: 09 November, 2010

ISBN: 9781935562276

Pages: 320

Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers

Available as: , Trade Cloth, 978-1-935562-28-3 Trade Paper, 978-1-935562-27-6 E-Book - Sony Format; Open Ebook, 978-1-935562-55-9

Description:

Six-feet-tall, fourteen-year-old Young Junius sets out to find his brother's killer in a cluster of Boston's low-income housing towers—prime drug-dealing territory. After committing a shooting to protect his friend, Junius finds himself with fifty dollars and instructions to run, but, shocked by the violence that he's created yet determined to see its consequences through, he refuses.

Seth Harwoodis the author ofJack Wakes Up. He lives in San Francisco.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2010-08-16

Set in 1987, Harwood's searing if overlong look at doomed youth chronicles a few pivotal days in the life of 14-year-old Junius Posey, a captive of poverty, ignorance, and misguided social programming in the Rindge Towers, a drug-ridden Cambridge, Mass., housing project. Beginning with his older brother Temple's funeral, Junius's extended quest to wreak vengeance on Temple's killer and make himself a power in his 'hood results in a vicious black comedy of murderous errors. Harwood (Jack Wakes Up) pulls no punches, revealing not only the white death of crack cocaine but the ineffectuality of black liberals who believe their Harvard Law books can cure the malignancy inherent in "forgotten civic ideas like the Towers and the desire of the Towers' inhabitants to destroy anyone trying to escape. In the end, Junius's fate is as old as Aeschylus, the endless cycle of killing "just a snake eating itself. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.