When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era SS_Gift_Guide there’s skullduggery in the medical

there’s skullduggery in the medical research labs and there are seismic rumblings behind the Iron Curtain

things grow complicated

Knausgaard flings open the gates to our most distressing neuroses and forces us to ask: What happens if the dark forces in the world are set free

As the siblings reckon with the possibility that more of their lives could be shared

only to discover something unbelievable

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era SS_Gift_Guide there’s skullduggery in the medicalLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A vivid and frank (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a communitys ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.The Washington Post A poignant and compelling re examination of a tragic era in America