{"product_id":"9781497643956","title":"Little Chicago","description":"\u003ci\u003eLittle Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e opens in the office of Children’s Services, where eleven-year-old Blacky Brown is being interviewed by a social worker who is trying to determine what has happened to him. At first, Blacky’s emotions are blocked, but then he reveals that he has been sexually abused by his mother’s boyfriend, and is released into his mother’s custody. Thus begins an alternately harrowing and hopeful story of a brave boy’s attempts to come to grips with a grim reality Mary Jane, a classmate who is similarly ostracized, tries to help Blackie, but he soon takes refuge instead in the gun that he buys easily from his sister’s boyfriend.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is an unblinking look at the world of a child who has been neglected and abused. It portrays head-on the indifference and hostility of classmates, teachers, and even Blacky’s mother, once these people learn his “secret.” Like Sura in \u003ci\u003eThe Buffalo Tree \u003c\/i\u003eand Whensday in \u003ci\u003eThe Copper Elephant\u003c\/i\u003e, Blacky is one of Adam Rapp’s mesmerizing voices, more so because it is a voice so rarely heard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126880125168,"sku":"9781497643956","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781497643956_p0.jpg?v=1763702363","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781497643956","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}