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A stone of hope : a memoir
- Title
- A stone of hope : a memoir / Jim St. Germain, with Jon Sternfeld.
- Author
- St. Germain, Jim
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sternfeld, Jon
- Description
- x, 292 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A searing memoir by a young black man who was a lost cause until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.
- Born into abject poverty in Haiti, St. Germain's family moved to Brooklyn's Crown Heights where he adapted to street life and began stealing, dealing drugs, and growing increasingly indifferent to despair and violence. At the age of fifteen he was placed in "Boys Town," a nonsecure detention facility designed for rehabilitation. Surrounded by mentors and positive male authority, St. Germain got his GED and graduated from college. Then he made the bravest decision of his life: to live in the projects and work to reform the way the criminal justice system treats at-risk youth.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292).
- Contents
- Part I: Brooklyn, USA. Front-row seat ; Five square blocks ; Hustle ; Buffett ; Survival mode ; T and T's -- Part II: The system. State property ; Points ; Scars ; Inside out ; Light ; Astonishing -- Part III: Out. Re-entry ; Through ; Exposure ; Outward ; The circle ; The bridge ; Thousands of Kalief Browders ; Fences and billboards ; Unfinished products.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-333
- ISBN
- 9780062458797
- 0062458795
- OCLC
- 981580075
- Author
- St. Germain, Jim, author.
- Title
- A stone of hope : a memoir / Jim St. Germain, with Jon Sternfeld.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292).
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Sternfeld, Jon, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-333