**WINNER of the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize"For a tough-guy book about tough guys, this is a work of almost unerring tenderness. If its subtitle promises “redemption,” the book itself delivers something more honest: stories about people broken by powers larger than they are and who nonetheless find the will to fight on." — Ben Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review"Katz has constructed a riveting and masterful urban narrative."—Lorraine Be...

Here is one of the most remarkable, ambitious, and utterly original memoirs of this generation, a story of the losing and finding of self, of sex and love and fatherhood and the joy of language, of death and failure and heartbreak, of Los Angeles and Portland and Nicaragua and Mexico, and the shifting sands of place and meaning that can make up a culture, or a community, or a home.Faced with the collapse of his son’s Little League program–consisting mostly of Latino kids in the lar...

"A searing account of gang violence and its consequences . . . Macedo's grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives for redemption. A masterful work of true crime—and, to be sure, true punishment." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA's most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos—so desperate that ...

The vibration of gratitude attracts more positive things into your life.~Charles Roe DirksenGrateful is a state of mind which allows peace and tranquility to find a place to live. In order to gain that which we seek, we have to channel our thoughts to ones that are thankful for all that we receive. Having the ability to experience gratefulness for all that you have is one of life’s greatest necessities. This audiobook will allow you to see the world with a fresh set of eyes...