![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel follows the short, eventful, often frightening existence of a Downtown East Side (DTES) Vancouver gang called the Black Roses. And I meant it.Īshley Little’s Anatomy of a Girl Gang is like an after-school special gone horribly awry-and that’s a good thing. ![]() Askin me if I wanted him to pull the trigger. I remember my uncle Leo stickin his gun up my asshole, makin me tell him I liked it. I seen my cousin shoot a dog in the head with a. I seen my mom threaten to kill my uncle with an axe. I seen the cops bash my brother’s hands with clubs until all his fingers were broken and hanging from his hands like bloody sausages. I seen my brother Neil push his girlfriend down the stairs so she wouldn’t have her baby. I seen one of my mom’s boyfriends smack her across the face with his gun because she smoked his last cigarette. I seen my brother, Eugene, get shot in the back, get paralyzed for life over a fifty-dollar debt. I seen Lenny stab a guy by the basketball courts, stab him in the neck with a broken beer bottle. I seen my brother Lenny get shot in the shoulder, the red flesh all ripped up like the inside of a fish. I seen my cousin Bo get shot in the belly and bleed to death in my kitchen. guy somehow brought it all back, everythin I thought I forgot-everythin I been trying so hard and long to block out-flashed in front of my eyes like I was seein it all again on a movie screen. ![]()
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