Cracka Willie

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Summary of Crack Willie: Ten-year-old Cracka Willie is an American-born Lebanese boy who, after many attempts to integrate within white society is rejected time and again and is tormented with loneliness. After a long and arduous journey to find his place in life, he realizes the African-American community is his best bets. Although he is immediately welcomed within their fold, he must first pass their initiation process. After many fistfights he loses, beatings he endures, and deaths he witnesses, he is surprisingly still alive and makes it. Despite the pleadings of his father to stay with his own kind, he decides to live among the Blacks in the Miami District of Liberty City, aka, Pork 'n Beans, the most violent and deadly square mile of Miami. He blends with them in perfect harmony and considers himself African but as time passes, he obliviously falls into disfavor with them and is eventually perceived as an intruder on their turf. . . Then disaster strikes and his father mourns. . . .