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Ebook About NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. In development as a feature film executive produced by Stephen Curry, who selected the book as his “Underrated” Book Club Pick with LiteratiThe chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.BONUS: This edition contains a new afterword and a The Other Wes Moore discussion guide.Book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Review :
Our son, who is a high school junior, was assigned 'The Other Wes Moore.' It seemed an opportune time for me to read the copy that was on my bookshelf. Our son and his older brother were adopted when they were three weeks old. They are African-American and my wife and I are Caucasian. We live in Maine which is as far removed from large inner-city slums as living in the Land of Oz. The urban environment describe in Mr. Moore's work about Baltimore and New York City are similar to the city our sons' birth-mom lived. Our two sons have three older siblings who were not given up for adoption and lived in such an urban hellhole. Therefore, you can imagine 'The Other Wes Moore' hits very close to home. Our son said to me he was acutely aware while reading Mr. Moore's book that it could easily have been him and his brother living in Baltimore or the Bronx with limited options and life-altering decisions. Please keep in mind these are friggin' kids, people. They are not even remotely equipped to emotional and intellectually handle such an environment. Man, most adults couldn't handle it.Passages of Mr. Moore's book made my stomach hurt. It is a wonderful example showing how the trope "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" to rise out of poverty is pure B.S. The author clearly understands that he had an extended family who personally sacrificed in an effort to save him from being claimed by the streets. It does take a village. The other Wes Moore, however, was not so fortunate despite also being quite intelligent. 'The Other Wes Moore' is snapshots of events which occur between their early childhood in 1982 through to 2000. Mr. Moore writes in a sensitive manner and does a good job explaining the mood of the kids living in black slums as well as the enticements and many obstacles in their way. I grew up in a rural Maine paper mill town. Alcoholism was a big problem but, compared to what is portrayed in 'The Other Wes Moore', our small community had it made.Our country is littered with ghettos which are landmarks of generational racism towards minorities. Mr. Moore's book like other such works as 'There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America' by Alex Kotlowitz effectively humanize the inner-city predicament. The challenges of living in slums are not someone else's problem. It's a national disgrace and requires a collective effort to rectify or at the very least ameliorate. The author did a public service by writing the book. I'm gonna go hug my sons. Some spoilers. I feel like this book did the best job it could with comparing the two different lives (and I felt the author did an excellent job with the background stories of the grandparents and great grandparents and their environments).One thing that was difficult about this book is that you are very aware that this was written by a person who only had first-hand knowledge of his own story. So, when reading another character's internal dialog or details about an interaction that he was not a part of, instead of being engrossed in the story I began asking myself, "I wonder who provided that detail? Who provided that perspective?" And the action began to be viewed differently depending on who I thought had actually provided the content.It must have been extremely difficult to get that information. So, for that, the details of the story are amazing. But, I think those very same content providers also may be hindering the book. I think we have a man convicted of a crime who wants to be free. Perhaps is exploring appeals. I have no idea. But he's still claiming his innocence against overwhelming evidence. Then, another content provider for the book is his mom, who I'm sure would also love to have her son be released. So I feel like we're being fed a filtered "truth" from the convicted Wes Moore and family. Such as convicted Wes Moore's mom dumping all of his drugs down the toilet, yet Wes had found pot in his mom's closet. Would she actually have dumped pot down the toilet or set that aside? Why the hypocrisy of throwing out drugs when also okay with using some? I also feel like she would have known that flushing the drugs could have put him in a serious situation in regards to owing money to dealers who may not have peacefully resolved the debt. This who scene didn't feel true to me. Perhaps I just needed more internal perspective from mom.We are also left with the impression that his mom assumed he was guilty, given her behavior while he and his brother were on the run, yet there is no statement about that from his mom in the book. Or even proclaiming his innocence. Maybe it's that silence that is the most telling. Overall, the book was good, but I feel like it could have been so much more. I feel like we are left with an unresolved feeling.I wish convicted Wes could have admitted his wrongdoings, describing and explaining his actions while on the run.The celebrated Wes Moore lists some of his accomplishments at the end of the book, but there is almost a feeling of embarrassment in regards to celebrating his success. As if he is overwhelmed by survivor's guilt. It was probably hard to say, okay, this guy is spending the rest of his life in prison, but let's now look at what I've accomplished. Perhaps this could have been best accomplished by quoting his mom. 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