A review by pwbalto
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada

5.0

I read it in about an hour. In an hour, I met Geoffrey Canada at the age of four, round-eyed when his mother insists his older brother confront a neighborhood thief to retrieve a stolen jacket. I saw him, at six, get robbed of sixty-one cents after he'd been trusted to walk to the store alone. (Alone! At six! Every cell of 'mom' in me sat up and waved her arms and shrieked when I read that.) I was worried when he found a knife in the gutter, and alarmed when he bought a gun.

I thought it was gut-wrenching, convincing, necessary, heartbreaking, and really REALLY well executed.

Full review on Pink Me: http://pinkme.typepad.com/pink-me/2010/11/fist-stick-knife-gun-geoffrey-canada-jamar-nicholas-review.html