In the Shadows of the City by James Lincoln Jewell

In Shadows of the City is a coming-of-age story of hope and redemption in a fractured society. Jack Wallace is a young man wrestling with the reality of faith, race, and the societal divide he witnesses every day. The trials of his life are unrelenting and his misguided anger often gets the best of him as he stumbles through life’s many obstacles. At the threshold of adulthood, he tries to pull himself out of the shadows of his mistakes. He knows he can break away from his path of self-destruction — but will he?