A new book by a former gang member turned peace advocate offers insight into trauma, violence, and acceptance.
I should have been more nervous when I went from being a columnist in Hartford, Conn., a city of 18 square miles, to being a columnist in the sixth-largest city in the nation.
was like taking a step back to a time that formed my identity as a columnist focused on gun violence, both in Hartford and Philly. That is why, Nazario told me when we spoke this week, he chose to focus on the traumas that made him susceptible to choosing that life.Among them was abuse and abandonment by a mother addicted to drugs and an absent and violent father, a tumultuous life in foster care and then on the streets, and the near-constant betrayal from adults and systems that were supposed to help him.“I remember not being able to see in the future,” Nazario writes.
For every step forward, there are often several steps back before the road beneath begins to stabilize, hopefully before it’s too late.
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