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**There and Now (Volume 1) **weaves the story of one of America's young black men nicknamed Lil E and his life growing up poor in the heart of Philadelphia. Lil E's saga starts in the mid-1970s, in inner city Northside, which was a riveting place for African American dangerous boys, and Lil E remembers it all in this gripping Philadelphia story.


Starting from his first memories of his time as a toddler in the crib, this journey of a novel explores every restless turn in his life, from his father's custodianship to the time he set his pillows on fire, his school disasters during the early stages of Philly's desegregation program and having to learn to fight back after being bullied. This wimpy kid, no matter how tall he grew, was just always the black boy everyone teased to death.


But bullying was far from the only childhood trauma, Lil E experienced; the childhood and society now in the 1980s are consumed by fire of gangstas paradise, hip hop culture, crack addiction, political corruption and ghetto drama.


Between the smiles of nostalgia to tears of a heart, There and Now is a book that will pull you along a journey full of history and emotion of one of America's places of public memory.