Writer MARITA GOLDEN, author of "Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World" (Doubleday). GOLDEN writes about bringing up her son in Washington D.C., where homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males between 18 and 24. In the preface, she says, "I stopped work on a novel in order to write this book. The unremitting press of young lives at risk, the numbing stubbornness of annual, real-life death tolls, rendered fiction suddenly unintriguing, vaguely obscene." She has instead written a book called "moving, disturbing and important" by Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's' Defense Fund.
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