There he slowly befriends Big Rose, an outcast, and is supported by program director Mr. Nicholas Houses he shares with his mother and her girlfriend Yvonne, he builds it during afterschool at the community center instead. And when it overtakes the apartment in the St. What do you do when your world turns upside down? Lolly builds another world, a LEGO world, constantly growing and evolving. His father has left, he’s being threatened by Harp and Gully of the East Side crew, and his older brother Jermaine is dead - he became a “street pharmacist” and was shot and killed. (“If Harlem was a human body, then 125th would be its pumping heart, throbbing all the time.”) But Lolly’s life isn’t going well. Twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul loves his Harlem neighborhood, that “big glowing crossword puzzle” bisected by 125th Street.
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