A sweeping indictment of poverty, America’s educational system, and how comfortably they both interact with the criminal justice system to upend the lives of young people and underprivileged families of color.
Takes readers on a journey ... The many threads of Live to See the Day are not always easy to track and the book might have benefited from focusing on one teen ... Goyal is a vivid writer — the stories he tells about these kids’ circumstances are painful and viscerally frustrating — but his narrative is often stalled by long passages on failed policies.
