![]() ![]() Even as he breaks with “la vida loca” and begins to discover success as a writer and an activist, Rodriguez finds that his past-the crimes, the drugs, the things he’d seen and done-has a way of calling him back. He describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a father, and his difficulty leaving his rages and addictions completely behind. The book opens with Rodriguez’s final stint in jail as a teenager and follows his struggle to kick heroin, renounce his former life, and search for meaningful work. ![]() The long-awaited follow-up, It Calls You Back is the equally harrowing story of Rodriguez starting over, at age eighteen, after leaving gang life-the only life he really knew. Rodriguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. ![]() Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. ![]() Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature. ![]()
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