When a Heart Turns Rock Solid
  • Published: 15 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307454874
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $49.99
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When a Heart Turns Rock Solid

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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
  • Published: 15 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307454874
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

Timothy Black

Timothy Black is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hartford where he directs the Center for Social Research. Black is a scholar activist who works with human service program leaders and state legislators in developing public policy and service programs, as well as grass-roots community groups in organizing low-income residents to represent their own political interests. His work focuses almost exclusively on socially and economically marginalized communities.
He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

Praise for When a Heart Turns Rock Solid

"Black has produced a narrative as compelling as well-crafted fiction." --The Boston Globe

"When a Heart Turns Rock Solid will break your heart, and it won't--and shouldn't--let any of us off the hook. This new, important book about poor people in America is an enlightened and anguished indictment of structural violence." --Alisse Waterston, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and author of Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence