Sunday You Learn How to Box

Strength and resilience fuel an urban teen's fight for survival in this acclaimed novel from Bil Wright that "delivers a knock-out punch" (Venus Magazine).

Fourteen-year-old Louis Bowman lives in a boxing ring--a housing project circa 1968--and is fighting "just to get to the end of the round." Sharing the ring is his mother, Jeanette Stamps, a ferociously stubborn woman battling for her own dreams to be realized; his stepfather, Ben Stamps, the would-be savior, who becomes the sparring partner to them both; and the enigmatic Ray Anthony Robinson, the neighborhood "hoodlum" in purple polyester pants, who sets young Louis's heart spinning with the first stirrings of sexual longing.

Bil Wright deftly evokes an unrelenting world with quirky humor and a clear-eyed perspective in this "deeply felt coming-of-age novel" that "reads like the best of memoirs" (School Library Journal).

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 02/04/2000
ISBN: 9780684857954
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.25w x 0.49d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/10/2000 pg. 44
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2000 pg. 16
Booklist 02/15/2000 pg. 1086
New York Times 02/20/2000 pg. 21
School Library Journal 09/01/2000 pg. 260
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2001 pg. 860
School Library Journal 08/24/2000