Description Way Past Cool was the first -- perhaps the only -- novel of urban American black life in the early 1990\'s: the era of collapsed structures, lost dreams, dashed hopes, agonizing violence, and a level of rage that for white America is simply unfathomable.
But, have things gotten any better? Way Past Cool is the story of 13-year-old boys who live alone in abandoned buildings, of 16-year-old single mothers, and of lives that make kids old by the time they graduate from ju.
Description Way Past Cool was the first -- perhaps the only -- novel of urban American black life in the early 1990\'s: the era of collapsed structures, lost dreams, dashed hopes, agonizing violence, and a level of rage that for white America is simply unfathomable
