Thoughts For Food

In South Central Los Angeles, the streets don't deal in second chances. Angalia Kioo has spent his life caught between two futures; one promised in the pages of college textbooks and scholarship letters, the other lurking in the alleys behind liquor stores and pawn shops. Raised by a mother barely holding their world together and haunted by the choices of a father he barely remembers, Angalia knows the math of survival in a city where loyalty is currency and debts are paid in blood.Thoughts for Food is a raw, unflinching portrait of generational poverty, loyalty as a trap, and the fatal gravity of a world designed to claim its own. Told in sharp, lyrical prose, this is the story of a boy too smart for the streets that raised him and too loyal to leave them behind.A novel about debt, consequence, and the unforgiving weight of inheritance. In this neighborhood, you don't escape.You run until you can't.