Publisher's Synopsis
Casey Diaz came to this country when he was two years old, the oldest son of El Salvadorian immigrants who settled in the barrios near downtown Los Angeles in the 1970s. An abusive father who constantly beat up his mother propelled Casey into street gangs at the age of eleven. He rose quickly within the ranks of the Rockwood Street Locos and participated in home invasions, carjackings, and stabbings of rivals, often with a screwdriver or knife. At sixteen, he was arrested and sentenced to nearly thirteen years in a state prison for second-degree murder and fifty-two counts of robbery. After two years, Casey was shipped to New Folsom State Prison and placed in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day. When an older black woman committed to prison ministry approached his cell and told him about God's love, Casey scoffed at her. Then, one day, a miraculous event took place in his cell that changed everything....
