The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.<br /><br />Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a <i>New York Times</i> notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, <i>Always Running</i> is the searing true story of one man’s life in a Chicano gang—and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.<br /><br />By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. <br /><br />Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no mo
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