Description:
Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang. In this shocking yet compassionate account, Mark Fleisher shows how gang girls' lives are shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect.
Review Quotes:
"Most of society has given up on these girls. Dead End Kids shows us why this is a tragic mistake."--Elizabeth Mehren, national correspondent, Los Angeles Times