There Are No Children Here (1993)

From Publishers Weekly The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers children of the Chicago ghetto is powerfully told here by Kotlowitz a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and seven respectively Their family includes a mother a frequently absent father an older brother and younger triplets We witness the horrors of growing up in an illmaintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur