Sunday You Learn How to Box A Novel

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Strength and resilience fuel an urban teen s fight for survival in this acclaimed novel from Bil Wright that delivers a knock-out punch ( Venus Magazine).Fourteen-year-old Louis Bowman lives in a boxing ring a housing project circa 1968 and is fighting just to get to the end of the round. Sharing the ring is his mother, Jeanette Stamps, a ferociously stubborn woman battling for her own dreams to be realized; his stepfather, Ben Stamps, the would-be savior, who becomes the sparring partner to them both; and the enigmatic Ray Anthony Robinson, the neighborhood hoodlum in purple polyester pants, who sets young Louis s heart spinning with the first stirrings of sexual longing. Bil Wright deftly evokes an unrelenting world with quirky humor and a clear-eyed perspective in this deeply felt coming-of-age novel that reads like the best of memoirs ( School Library Journal).

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