Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the harmful streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover.

Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man’s life in a Chicano gang—and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez used to be a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests after which watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and members of the family. Before long, Rodriguez saw some way out of the barrio through education and the facility of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.

Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he used to be sure the streets would haunt him no more—until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.

Now and then heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is in the end an uplifting true story, stuffed with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the following generation.

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