The autobiography of a 15-year-old New Yorker who is dying of AIDS. Anthony Johnson was born in 1977 and for 11 years was physically and sexually abused by his parents. However, this book is not a grimly explicit account of those years; it is a journal about the strength of friendship and the joy of growing up in New York, the wonders of knowledge and the happiness in his new adopted family. The voice is that of a bright teenager who has belief in the goodness of mankind despite the horrors he has and is suffering.
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The autobiography of a 15-year-old New Yorker who is dying of AIDS. Anthony Johnson was born in 1977 and for 11 years was physically and sexually abused by his parents. However, this book is not a grimly explicit account of those years; it is a journal about the strength of friendship and the joy of growing up in New York, the wonders of knowledge and the happiness in his new adopted family. The voice is that of a bright teenager who has belief in the goodness of mankind despite the horrors he has and is suffering.
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I remember reading this fifteen years ago when I was entering high school. This remains one of the most vivid, haunting stories I have ever read. It forever changed my experience with Mr. Rogers (who wrote the preface) and the song "The Rainbow Connection", which I now cannot hear without crying. This boy's story should not disappear into the miasma of out of print books. Everyone should learn from his story of tragedy and overcoming dismal pain to experience love and support.