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Thoughts For Food
Paperback
Publisher: Alwy Jones
Published: Jul 4 2025
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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