![]() ![]() Since the story takes place in the Seventies and Eighties, it captures the progress of the drug trade, beginning with the-in retrospect-almost idyllic time when the kids idolized the local marijuana-peddler because of his wealth and his commitment to the neighborhood and carrying through the hard times: the crime and killings after cocaine and heroin took over. MacDonald’s tales of project life ring true to me. I never lived in Southie, but spent a lot of time there and in Roxbury in the mid-Seventies when I was considering moving there. ![]() I happened to pick it up just after watching The Departed and found the book a refreshing real-life look at the symbiosis of drug lords, politicians and policemen in South Boston. MacDonald’s prose is straight-forward and engaging as he tells this story of growing up in the projects in Southie. I cannot recommend this memoir highly enough. ![]()
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