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The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.

Sabine Kruegler lived in West Papau, Indonesia, with the Fayu tribe since she was five; and when she became a teenager she was sent to a Swiss boarding school where she faced trouble adapting to Western culture; now as a woman, she is faced with the decision of either returning to the primitive life of the jungle or joining modern society.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.