This is the prequel to stringer’s bestselling first memoir, grand central winter, now in pb. A Boy Meets World story from the author of Grand Central Winter, the acclaimed memoir of life on the streets of 1980s New York. With a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut. Lee Stringer revealed his life living with the mole people in the tunnels under New York City in Grand Central Winter. In this new work, he tells of the hardships of his early childhood: his time in foster care, the pain of being poor and black, his expulsion from school and the years he spent at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls - a ‘sleepaway school’ for children at risk.