Thoughts For Food

<p>In South Central Los Angeles the streets don't deal in second chances. Angalia Kioo has spent his life caught between two futures; one promised in the pages of college textbooks and scholarship letters the other lurking in the alleys behind liquor stores and pawn shops. Raised by a mother barely holding their world together and haunted by the choices of a father he barely remembers Angalia knows the math of survival in a city where loyalty is currency and debts are paid in blood.</p><p>Thoughts for Food is a raw unflinching portrait of generational poverty loyalty as a trap and the fatal gravity of a world designed to claim its own. Told in sharp lyrical prose this is the story of a boy too smart for the streets that raised him and too loyal to leave them behind.</p><p>A novel about debt consequence and the unforgiving weight of inheritance. In this neighborhood you don't escape.<br>You run until you can't.</p><p> </p>