Juan Laporte
Name: Juan Laporte
Favorite Book: "Down These Mean Streets" by Piri Thomas "It was really lucky I find this book. It spoke to me. It's about machismo, and racial identity, and Spanish Harlem, and fighting. I coulda been one of the characters in this book! I shoulda read it in high school when it was assigned, but I never did. Crazy me. Now I've read it about 100 times! It's honest and powerful. Nah, I never was a big reader, but this was good stuff." |