In the Deep Heart's Core
Author: Michael Johnston
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780802140241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Deep Heart's Core is the uplifting story of young Teach for America volunteer who becomes an English teacher in a desperately impoverished African-American high school in the rural Mississippi Delta beset by gang violence, drug abuse, ruptured families and teen pregnancy-but among the sorrow and struggle he finds dignity and hope, and works to bring the nascent intellectual curiosity of his students to full flower.