Buck: A Memoir
MK Asante
เบช.เบซ. 2013 ยท Penguin Random House Audio ยท เบเบฑเบเบเบฒเบเปเบเบ MK Asante เปเบฅเบฐ Adenrele Ojo
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A rebellious boyโs journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing familyโthis is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.
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MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nationโs dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. Now he was aloneโhis mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the countryโand forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.
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Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachersโoutlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. Itโs a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us.
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โA story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.โโMaya Angelouย
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โIn America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generationโs story.โโNPR
โThe voice of a new generation. . . . You will love nearly everything about Buck.โโEssence
โA virtuoso performance . . . [an] extraordinary page-turner of a memoir . . . written in a breathless, driving hip-hop prose style that gives it a tough, contemporary edge.โโThe Philadelphia Inquirer
โFrequently brilliant and always engaging . . . It takes great skill to render the wide variety of characters, male and female, young and old, that populate a memoir like Buck. Asante [is] at his best when he sets out into the city of Philadelphia itself. In fact, that city is the true star of this book. Phillyโs skateboarders, its street-corner philosophers and its tattoo artists are all brought vividly to life here. . . . Asanteโs memoir will find an eager readership, especially among young people searching in books for the kind of understanding and meaning that eludes them in their real-life relationships. . . . A powerful and captivating book.โโHector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
โRemarkable . . . Asanteโs prose is a fluid blend of vernacular swagger and tender poeticism. . . . [He] soaks up James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and Walt Whitman like thirsty ground in a heavy rain. Buck grew from that, and itโs a bumper crop.โโSalon
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โBuck is so honest it floatsโeven while itโs so down-to-earth that the reader feels like an ant peering up from the concrete. Itโs a powerful book. . . . Asante is a hip-hop raconteur, a storyteller in the Homeric tradition, an American, a rhymer, a big-thinker singing a song of himself. Youโll want to listen.โโThe Buffalo News
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MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nationโs dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. Now he was aloneโhis mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the countryโand forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.
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Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachersโoutlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. Itโs a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us.
Praise for Buck
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โA story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.โโMaya Angelouย
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โIn America, we have a tradition of black writers whose autobiographies and memoirs come to define an era. . . . Buck may be this generationโs story.โโNPR
โThe voice of a new generation. . . . You will love nearly everything about Buck.โโEssence
โA virtuoso performance . . . [an] extraordinary page-turner of a memoir . . . written in a breathless, driving hip-hop prose style that gives it a tough, contemporary edge.โโThe Philadelphia Inquirer
โFrequently brilliant and always engaging . . . It takes great skill to render the wide variety of characters, male and female, young and old, that populate a memoir like Buck. Asante [is] at his best when he sets out into the city of Philadelphia itself. In fact, that city is the true star of this book. Phillyโs skateboarders, its street-corner philosophers and its tattoo artists are all brought vividly to life here. . . . Asanteโs memoir will find an eager readership, especially among young people searching in books for the kind of understanding and meaning that eludes them in their real-life relationships. . . . A powerful and captivating book.โโHector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
โRemarkable . . . Asanteโs prose is a fluid blend of vernacular swagger and tender poeticism. . . . [He] soaks up James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and Walt Whitman like thirsty ground in a heavy rain. Buck grew from that, and itโs a bumper crop.โโSalon
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โBuck is so honest it floatsโeven while itโs so down-to-earth that the reader feels like an ant peering up from the concrete. Itโs a powerful book. . . . Asante is a hip-hop raconteur, a storyteller in the Homeric tradition, an American, a rhymer, a big-thinker singing a song of himself. Youโll want to listen.โโThe Buffalo News
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MK Asante is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor of creative writing and film at Morgan State University.
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