an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League
Suskind, Ron
1998
Follows gifted African-American student Cedric Jennings from his crime-infested high school in Washington D.C. to his junior year at Brown University, discussing the problems he encountered along the road out of the ghetto.
High school student Eric is befriended by the hot, new rapper Fiasco and suddenly goes from being unpopular to being cool, but soon finds out that popularity has a price.