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“This July Jordan prize is just a scarce bit of fiction in one of America's most essential poets and governmental essayists—a sensitive tale of young love-in the facial skin of generational resistance, a contemporary-day Romeo and Juliet that performs and sways.”—Walter Mosley"There has to be links if we're to achieve our young. His Own Where guarantees to become one."—New York Times Book Review (1971)Selected for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where's the story of Friend, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning unmanageable. He meets Angela, whose furious parents accuse her to be "crazy." When life comes apart for his dad and Pal, and when Angela is assaulted athome, they do something to produce their very own method of keeping living in Brooklyn. Along the way, both discover that love is required and genuine and discover sanctuary in one single another.