Honky

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Description

As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley’s childhood has the entire classic elements of growing up in The usa. But the truth that he used to be one of the vital few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side makes Dalton’s childhood unique.

At the age of three, he couldn’t have in mind why the infant daughter of the black separatists next door couldn’t be his sister, so he kidnapped her. By the point he used to be a teenager, he realized that not even a parent’s devotion could offer protection to his best friend from a stray bullet. Years after the privilege of being white and middle class allowed Conley to leave the projects, his entertaining memoir allows us to see how race and class affect us all. Perfectly pitched and daringly original, Honky is that rare book that entertains while it informs.


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