NEIGHBORHOOD KID

<p><strong>Readers of <em>Always Running</em> and <em>Tattoos on the Heart</em> will love this neighborhood message.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>NEIGHBORHOOD KID</em></strong> shifts the narrative of success from making it out of a disinvested community to <em>making it better</em>. Growing up in one of the most gang-violent areas David escapes his neighborhood believing he has left his problems behind. But after a change in environment didn't bring him the escape he hoped for he soon realized he needed to return home and confront the issues plaguing his barrio at all costs.</p><p></p><p>David returns home to fight for his neighborhood-launching a nonprofit reviving a community center campaign and revitalizing the courts he grew up on. But the same streets he loves betray him when he is struck in a hit-and-run at a notorious crosswalk in front of his childhood home. Given a second chance he learns that creating change doesn't have to come at the cost of self-sacrifice.</p><p></p><p>In <strong><em>NEIGHBORHOOD KID</em></strong> David blends personal storytelling with actionable frameworks for shifting the conditions holding problems in place proving that transforming a neighborhood starts with both facing the fire within your community and yourself<strong>.</strong></p>