TY - BOOK AU - Mowry,Jess TI - Way past cool SN - 0374286698 : AV - PS3563.O934 W3 1992 U1 - 813/.54 20 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Farrar Straus Giroux KW - Gangs KW - California KW - Oakland KW - Fiction KW - Allegories KW - gsafd N2 - A gang of young African American boys struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak turf in Oakland when a 16-year-old drug dealer instigates a fight with them. But the dealer's unwilling bodyguard emerges as the key player in a drama that illuminates America's urban reality in a totally fresh way. "Should be read by all of mainstream America".--Terry McMillan, author of Waiting to Exhale UR - http://www.archive.org/details/waypastcool00mowr UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1560782M ER -