When Ripton Rosen joined a pick-up game with kids from the nearby projects and invited the kids home for Nintendo and snacks, he was simply making friends as kids do. With time, five of the boys began to refer to Michael and Leslie Rosen as Mom and Dad, and the couple took on much of the emotional and practical responsibilities of parenting teenage boys through school, into work, and out of their local world.  Together the couple encountered all the bumps and switchbacks of inner-city adolescence while creating an unconventional family.

What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse (Hardcover)

By Michael Rosen

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9781586485627
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: PublicAffairs, 7/2009

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