With their two voices alternating throughout the telling, this is the true story of a unique relationship that manages to transcend today’s racial and cultural divide.  One is a successful Caucasian author of numerous non-fiction books who shares a home with lifelong friends in the Hollywood Hills.  The other is an African American youth who grew up robbing people on the streets of downtown Los Angeles to survive, while stealing books from the library to become a savant in ancient mythology. 

Fifty years apart in age, they fall accidentally (or by fate) into each other’s lives at a time of transition for both.  It’s a tale of two initiations: the young genius with a father in jail and a mother on drugs, suddenly recognized for his potential by a society he has scorned, and the unexpected mentor who becomes a welcomed denizen of a neighborhood he’s never entered before.

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