James tells the story of how a once prosperous neighborhood became gang-ridden, drugged out, and violent-prone.
This novel brings to life many of the hidden facts about drug dealing and gangbanging and how these helped Ruin and destroy Fifeville..
The narrative ends with Mo, Ben, and Jay, clinging to one another vowing to pick up the pieces and start over.
He came to himself after talking to his friend Harry, an ex-con and ex-gang member.
Mo\'s love was the balm that healed his soul.
He lost his job, and he temporarily lost his mind.
He ultimately lost the house he tried to cling to.
Mo left him and took his remaining son with her.
That Murder turned Ben\'s life upside down.
But the crime around Ben and his family became a ravenous beast that consumed Ben and Mo\'s firstborn son, Saw.
Ben decided that he would elicit change in Fifeville from gangs, dope, and violence by being a living example showing that anyone could have a good life without succumbing to criminal activities.
He met Moisha (Mo), at a party one night, and he and she got married, brought two children into the world (twins, Esau [Saw] and Jacob [Jay]), and tried to make a good life for them all in the same house that Ben had grown up in, in the same neighborhood where his relatives had been murdered-on the Corner of Fifth and Dice Streets in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He found out that a life outside the gang was every bit as trying as one within it.
After the untimely death of his beloved ones, he decided that he would have nothing to more to do with gangs of the gangster lifestyle.
Ben had been a tagalong with the Fifeville Crew but was never a hardcore gangster.
Ben held a gun but did not open fire.
A stray bullet killed Ben\'s grandma.
Ben hid while his cousin was gunned down by Jamie Charles, a notorious member of the Jamaican posse.
These people were all murdered on the corner of Fifth and Dice Streets in the heart of Fifeville in Ben\'s presence.
He speaks through the lips of Benjamin Luther Slokum and how Ben related to ghosts of his grandma, his brother Ivy, and his cousin Roy.
James tells the story of how a once prosperous neighborhood became gang-ridden, drugged out, and violent-prone
