Ghetto Life

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Writer and filmmaker Nelson George grew up in the Tilden housing project in Brownsville, Brooklyn. That setting plays a large role in his memoir City Kid.

Events:
Nelson George will be speaking and signing books
Monday, April 6, at 6:00pm
HUE-MAN Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Tuesday, April 7, at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, Brooklyn Heights
106 Court Street, Brooklyn

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