Jerald Walker author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption.

Second in the AUTHOR MEET AND GREET SERIES for 2011
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The Ames Free Library is proud to present Jerald Walker author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption. 

 Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again. By age seventeen he was a school dropout, a drug addict, and a gangbanger, his life spiraling toward the violent and premature end all too familiar to African American males. And then came the blast of gunfire that changed everything: his coke-dealing friend Greg was shot to death—less than an hour after Walker scored a gram from him.

Walker is currently an Associate Professor at Emerson College.