Edgewater Angels

Despite the violence, poverty, hopelessness, despair, and terror that surrounds him as he grows up in the projects of San Pedro, California, Sunny Toomer manages to indulge in the adventurous pleasures of childhood and discovers the strength, friendship, humor, love, and small miracles that mark his community as he negotiates the passage between boyhood and adulthood. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.