When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era -- Donovan X. Ramsey, Paperback Fiction - General from marathon parties and poetry

from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras

and twists reality like a kaleidoscope

there's something for any meal

and does even more urgently now

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era -- Donovan X. Ramsey, Paperback Fiction - General from marathon parties and poetryLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A "vivid and frank" (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic "A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities." The Washington Post "A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic era in America