Publisher's Synopsis
With his pitch-perfect ear for rhythms and dialogue of the inner city, Brian Ray proves he is a master of the genre in South Side Dreams, where he captures the harrowing life of a Chicago family as they struggle to get on in life. Taking place within the space of a week, this book follows the lives a black family living in a desolate neighbourhood on the crime-ridden South Side. When the matriarch of the Evans family, Dorothy, literally drinks herself to death, the children are forced to tackle their own futures. Hard lessons and real truths are revealed.
