philadelphia (pa)

A memoir chronicling the author's upbringing in a Philadelphia housing project in the 1960s, covering his father's erratic and emotional behavior and his own flight from the confines of his youth to follow his dreams and better his circumstances.

Chronicles the yellow fever epidemic of 1973, which centered in Philadelphia. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the epidemic, it includes black-and-white reproductions of period art and facsimiles of newspaper excerpts.