Always Running

Luis Rodriguez's award-winning, bestselling memoir, *Always Running*, delivers a searing, firsthand account of his adolescence as a Chicano gang member in East Los Angeles. Starting at age twelve, Rodriguez details the brutal realities of gang life, his journey to escape through education and words, and his later fight to save his own son from a similar path. A Carl Sandburg Literary Award winner and New York Times notable book, this classic cautionary tale is both heartbreaking and hopeful, now featuring a new introduction by the author.

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This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of True Crime. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Organized Crime, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.