The short and tragic life of Robert Peace

By Jeff Hobbs

Subjects: Biography, Working class African Americans, Large type books, Drug dealers, African American college graduates, Friends and associates, Alumni and alumnae, Yale University

Description: On arriving at Yale, Jeff Hobbs became fast friends with the man who would be his roommate for four years. Robert Peace's life had been rough, living in poverty with his mother in 1980s Newark, his father in jail. But he was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier. It didn't. In an honest rendering of Robert's relationships in two fiercely insular worlds, Hobbs encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America. (Bestseller)