{"description": "Like Way Past Cool, Mowry's powerful third novel tells a story of coming-of-age young, black and poor in America; a tale about a 13-year-old boy from the rural South seeking escape from the ghosts of racism still haunting his little town. Bright, handsome Corbitt Wainwright sees no future in Bridge-end, Mississippi. When his father is sent to prison for attacking a racist white man and he himself becomes involved in a deadly dispute over a catfish, Corbitt flees in hopes of finding life better in Oakland, California. Instead, he becomes enmeshed in a net of guns, gangs and crack, black-on-black crime, violent police and urban-flavored racism. Except for Lactameon, a fat, 13-year-old gang mascot, Oakland might have been another dead end for Corbitt. When they eventually come together, the two boys rescue a starving one-eyed urchin named Ethan from death on the streets. Mowry has an unerring ear for gritty street talk, a vivid and graphic sense of place, whether in Mississippi woods or an Oakland alley, and an unflinching view of the side of America -- a world where black youth have few options -- that most more fortunate Americans prefer not to see or deal with. Drawing upon a wondrously eclectic background of rap and rock music, contemporary and classic movies, street slang, books, Voodoo and ghosts, he synthesizes a whole new mix of adventure fiction; perhaps the only \"There And Back Again\" in African-American literature.\r\n\r\nThis special 20th year edition includes a Forward by the author.", "links": [{"url": "http://jessmowry.net/index.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Jess Mowry Official Site"}], "title": "Six Out Seven", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-12-31T11:30:16.162188"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-02-04T01:13:53.321352"}, "covers": [7984883, -1], "subject_places": ["Starkville Mississippi", "Oakland California"], "subjects": ["Black kids", "Black teens", "African-American kids", "Mississippi", "Oakland California", "youth gangs", "homeless kids", "Corbitt trucks", "Greyhound busses"], "subject_people": ["Corbitt Wainwright", "Toby Barlow", "Lamar Sampson", "Lactameon", "Weylen", "Ethan", "Sylvester", "Beamer", "Mrs", "Griffin", "Shilo Bates", "Mr. Rudd"], "key": "/works/OL16420702W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL530100A"}}], "latest_revision": 14, "subject_times": ["1992"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "revision": 14}