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detailed in his book. His reform came after an arrest for throwing a brick into a local jewelry store. He also mentioned a gang called the "Hooligans." " It takes place during the 1960s and 1970s on Long Island in New York. From a Latino background, he takes us through his cultural confusion, as his parents tried to assimilate within a predominantly white community, and his confrontation with overt racism at school. It details the abusive environment he faced in Catholic school, his growing anger, and his fall into childhood alcoholism and delinquency.His alcoholism merges with drug addiction and he finds value and identity within a gang. The momentum of his life, balancing precariously between rebellious destruction and a search for artistic beauty ."
Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment Paperback – July 8, 2020 by Ray Lopez (Author), and wife Paula Gill Lopez (Contributor)
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