Books Read #8 "Always outnumbered, always outgunned" by Walter Mosley.

[jeffreyab]

As in black men are always outnumbered, always outgunned.

This is the first book in the Socrates Fortlow duology. It describes Socrates passage from solitary street person to foster father, full time employee and gives details on his arrival in LA. Lots of discussion about how black men regard life and the police and marriage. Also about life in Watts. A very good read and highly reccomended.

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[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

He was a guest of honor at Bloody Words a couple years ago. I moderated a panel on cross-genre fiction with him and Rob Sawyer (and a couple other victimspanelists). He's also written some rather dark SF.