A Disjointed Search for the Will to Live

Book excerpt: A powerful, experimental piece of fiction from a black American male incarcerated since the age of 16, A Disjointed Search For The Will to Live is a novel of struggle through pain and social injustice. Beginning with surrealistic impressions of the author's current prison environment, the book opens into a narrative centred around the ghettos of Baltimore, where our young narrator describes a sometimes brutal, sometimes beautiful childhood in urban poverty and adolescence in incarceration, a story driven by its subtle, seamless prose and radical politics.