Black Rock

Black Rock is a coming-of-age story about children living in a community filled with immigrants, generational poverty, and families with marginal incomes. It is also a story that delves into the challenges that their families experienced. However, growing up, these children never felt they were on the wrong side of the tracks. They experienced the full thrust of its social structure, including abuse by bullies, verbal and physical assaults, mob violence, racism, and threats to life and limb. But it was also the best time of their lives. Despite poverty and degradation at the hands of perverse individuals, the overall community and its values shine as they learn to accept and help one another, no matter who they are or where they come from.