God’s Pocket

Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two–Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man. Because only a mother could love a boy like that. And only a crusading outsider would dream of digging too deeply into the mean streets and wasted lives of the neighborhood they call God's Pocket. Now back in print, God's Pocket is the powerful first novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.