{"product_id":"third-and-indiana-9780140239454","title":"Third and Indiana","description":"In the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a life is lost in the carnage of the local drug wars, a boldly drawn chalk outline of a body appears on the street leading up to City hall: a teenaged dealer, a priest, a little girl with a jump rope. Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the dark, decaying streets, looking for her fourteen-year-old-son, Gabriel. She's afraid of what she might find. Gabriel has fallen in with the most savage of the drug dealers, but now wants to get out--if he can. In this gritty, fast-moving novel, acclaimed \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer \u003c\/i\u003ecolumnist Steve Lopez brings home the violence that is scarring America's vast urban wastelands, and the humanity that might save them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An unfancy prose is streaked by strong, cinematic images . . . Lopez aims to prick consciences, in the tradition of the documentary novelist, and he does so with considerable style.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Lopez has done what Balzac, Dickens . . . and Dostoevsky did so masterfully: he has taken a torch to the back of the cave and returned to tell us what he has seen.\" -Pete Hamill, \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Lopez \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Macaroni Club \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Soloist\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2009, \u003ci\u003eThe Soloist \u003c\/i\u003ewas made into a movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. Lopez is a columnist with the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872454480146,"sku":"9780140239454","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31a9bff3-9b57-475c-80b4-0df966ef17f8.jpg?v=1737898043","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/third-and-indiana-9780140239454","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}