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Last night I was woken up by Marco ringing; he was crying. He said, 'He died, Ivor—he died.' I didn't need to hear who to know; I just hung up.
Ivor and Marco have been getting high since they were thirteen, started dealing at fourteen, and by fifteen they were carrying knives. At sixteen, they hurtle from one trip to the next, one fight to the next, always watching their backs. Ivor dreams of getting out — finishing school, becoming a lawyer, marrying the girl he loves from the corner shop — but the path he's on only leads one way.
In flashes of firecracker prose, shot through with rare empathy, irrepressible wit and gut-punch pathos, Oliver Lovrenski gives voice to young men growing up in a brutal and chaotic world.