Mojo wisdom & know-how

Mojo wisdom & know-howWhen enslaved people were brought from the western part of Africa to the Americas, they were forbidden to speak their native languages or practice their religions in the New World.

a soap opera star

She always wanted to know who her parents were and why they abandoned her as a baby

gripping and unforgettable

San Francisco Chronicle

But when another international student enters the scene

A free-spirit

finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars

Free and bent on destroying the world

the alcoholic

he's learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion—complete with dangerous white-water rafting

Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction—both her own and others'—and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us

A survival guide from one of the greatest creative organizers of the 20th century—now with a new foreword by co-conspirator