Touchstone BooksProduct DescriptionThe award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles?? now featuring a new introduction by the author.
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award?? hailed as a New York Times notable book?? and read by hundreds of thousands?? Always Running is the searing true story of one man??s life in a Chicano gang?and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
By age twelve?? Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture?? he witnessed countless shootings?? beatings?? and arrests and then wat