Told from different viewpoints-not just those of Damien and Head off to Memphis to live with a distant relative and Damien runs off Love conquers all in the end, when Junice and Melissa Damien, meanwhile, is in a "manhood jam" with Sledge, aĬlassmate who taunts him and says he's slept with Junice, and they To Damien at first she's concerned her troubles will overwhelm him. The wing of the Department of Family Services. Wrestling with anger and grief, Junice isĭetermined to protect her younger sister Melissa and not be taken under Junice, whose mother has just been sent to prison for 25 years for drug Damien, age 17,Īlready admitted to Brown University, is attracted to 16-year-old Ultimately hopeful story of teenage love set in Harlem. Myers employs the novel-in-free-verse format to tell a wrenching but To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2006:
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