If you ever really wanted to know how Bukowski grew into the gritty, often lewd and brutally beautiful writer he was, here’s the beginning of it – his formative years. Humorous, raw, and imbued with the spirit of my favorite poet.
Two kids with the same name lived in the same city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the true story of two boys and the journey of a generation.