{"product_id":"money-rock-9781620973271","title":"Money Rock","description":"\u003cb\u003e“An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta-Journal Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kelley could have written a fine book about Charlotte’s drug trade in the ’80s and ’90s, filled with shoot-outs and flashy jewelry. What she accomplishes with \u003ci\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is far more laudable.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pam Kelley knows a good story when she sees one—and \u003ci\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is a hell of a story. . . like a New South version of \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMeet Money Rock—young, charismatic, and Charlotte’s flashiest coke dealer—in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history—by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic—of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe saga begins in 1963 when a budding civil rights activist named Carrie gives birth to Belton Lamont Platt, eventually known as Money Rock, in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital. Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as \"Maximum Bob.\" When the story concludes more than a half century later, Belton has redeemed himself. But three of his sons have met violent deaths and his oldest, fresh from prison, struggles to make a new life in a world where the odds are stacked against him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies—racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration—help shape individual destinies. \u003cem\u003eMoney Rock\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pam Kelley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284375089403,"sku":"9781620973271","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_15b09a86-a65d-4ad2-86d6-f9dc75cad633.jpg?v=1771411141","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/money-rock-9781620973271","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}