This national bestseller chronicles the real story of two brothers coming old in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Streams are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summertime of 1987. Living with their mom and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang affects, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies.

Immersed within their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of developing up poor in America’s cities. YOU CAN FIND No Children Right here was chosen by the New York Community Library as one of the 150 most significant books from the twentieth century. It was afterwards made into a television movie for ABC, produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey.