Way Past Cool | Related Titles/Adaptations
Rats in the Trees consists of several short stories about a pubescent gang's life in a small area of Oakland and is thus a precursor to Way Past Cool. Like Way Past Cool, Six Out Seven may be somewhat autobiographical, telling as it does about a young African American who flees Mississippi only to find racism in Oakland. Babylon Boyz tells of young adults discovering a cache of cocaine and of their struggle to decide whether to sell it and use the money to better their lives or to destroy it so that it will not further poison a neighborhood already hurt...
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