Strapped
An impoverished African American teen, raised in a grim and desperate Brooklyn project finds himself forced to set aside his dreams in order to face the realities of daily survival. This well-wrought and disturbing portrait of a young man's life was penned by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman.
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December 11, 2017
... a fairly simple moral tale, despite plot complications drawn from local headlines.
