“Young in America: New Orleans is a stunning collection of essays and poems by
New Orleans teenagers, writing personally, with enormous courage about their lives. Reading Young in America: New Orleans taught me a side of being young in America now that I don’t viscerally know from raising my own children—an experience of feeling harrowed, endangered, frightened, daunted and often alone…These high school students have urgent stories to tell us. One feels one is hearing them work on their lives as they write them, that one is watching redemption in real time.”
—Mona Simpson,
award-winning author of My Hollywood, and four other novels.