Kozol’s mission now that he is 64 is to spend time with the children “in unhurried ways,” perhaps to salve his own loneliness and distress at the deteriorating health of his parents, in their 90s. Ann, complemented by visits to two elementary schools that served as examples of the public neglect so forcefully depicted in his earlier books. His base is the after-school program at the Episcopal church of St. Here, Kozol chronicles the renewal of friendships with the children and adults he came to know in the early 1990s.
A moving, intimate journal of a return to the South Bronx neighborhood that was the focus of Kozol’s powerful plea ( Amazing Grace, 1995) on behalf of the children of poverty.
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