Po H# on Dope to PhD

"There was a time when Elaine Richardson was one of ''the Negroes everybody pointed to as the Negroes you didn''t want to become.'' The title of this book is no metaphor or allusion, but a literal shorthand for a remarkable, unpredictable journey. She inherits a plain way of talking about horrific pain from a mother who seemed impossible to shock. The way too fast way she grew up was and is too co...