Animals I Want To See - A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds

A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, Animals I Want To See explores themes of identity, ambition, religion, and friendship-often across racial and social lines-as it spotlights a family of fourteen and tracks a boy-s journey from a child janitor with big dreams to a teenage petty criminal to a student at Yale and Harvard.