Sleepaway School : Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir - Lee Stringer

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Sleepaway School

Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir

By: Lee Stringer

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Hardcover | 1 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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There are family-like bonds that can form within the larger human family, when one’s own family life has been broken into fragments. Such is the case throughout Sleepaway School, Lee Stringer’s recounting of his years at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls—a school for kids at risk—and the events that led up to them.

The clash of being poor and black in an affluent, largely white New York suburb begins to foment pain and rage which erupts, more often than not, when he is at school. One violent episode results in his expulsion from the sixth grade and his subsequent three-year stint at Hawthorne, the "sleepaway school" of the title. What follows is an intensely personal American journey: a universal story of childhood where childhood universals are missing. Excluded at first by his peers, Stringer develops an outsider’s eye, enabling him to see some things more deeply from without than from within. Such insight, however, is not enough to assuage the anguish he feels over his isolation. And when this spills out Stringer finds himself in yet another, darker institution.

In Sleepaway School, we experience how a child fashions his life out of the materials given to him, however threadbare. This is a boy-meets-world story, the chronicle of one child’s struggle simply to be.

Lee Stringer is the author of the acclaimed Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street (Seven Stories Press, 1998), which chronicled his twelve years of crack addiction and homelessness on the streets of New York City. It has been translated into eighteen languages, and prompted Stringer’s appearance on Oprah and many other national television shows, newspapers and magazines.

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Three fatherless sons walking	p. 1
The thing is	p. 5
At the back of the lot	p. 9
My mother has a Victrola	p. 15
When the cops get to	p. 21
I do just as the cops say	p. 25
The next morning	p. 31
We're all in the auditorium	p. 35
It's a Friday	p. 45
First, there is	p. 51
For most of its history	p. 57
They are short one	p. 63
We're in the van	p. 73
My mother brings along	p. 81
... Our day	p. 89
They took me	p. 95
All of us	p. 101
Every Tuesday	p. 107
This new kid. This Walter	p. 113
Red-haired	p. 119
Steve has pictures. Sexy pictures	p. 123
Curiosity and urgency	p. 127
I've begun to halfways suspect	p. 131
I think it's stepping back	p. 141
If I peer through	p. 149
I don't go back	p. 157
A week before	p. 163
On the inside	p. 171
We're down	p. 177
The flu	p. 183
It's around midnight, and	p. 193
A Friday	p. 201
Princess	p. 211
There's a big	p. 219
About the Author	p. 227
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Sleepaway School

Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir

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