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Welfare Brat

Growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s, the author faced a childhood marked by poverty and abuse. This candid memoir traces her life against a neighborhood in decline, with rising crime, riots, families leaving for the suburbs, and easy access to drink and drugs. It follows her reliance on the welfare system and her difficult, determined struggle to become self-sufficient.

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