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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King »

Authors: Reymundo Sanchez, Rey Sanchez
ISBN-13: 9781556524271, ISBN-10: 1556524277
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Date Published: July 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Reymundo Sanchez

Reymundo Sanchez is the pseudonym of a former Latin King who no longer lives in Chicago.

Book Synopsis

This is the autobiography of a young man initiated into Chicago's Latin Kings gang at the age of 14. Lil Loco, as he became known, quickly earned a reputation for crazy violence. For 10 years a 30- block area of Chicago defined his reality as he rode the highs and lows of gang life in a world where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of his own gang. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Chicago Magazine

A viciously candid, self-deprecating memoir.

Preface	xv
1 La Familia	1
2 Chicago	4
3 Humboldt Park	8
4 The Beatings Begin	15
5 The Spanish Lords	23
6 Murder in the 'Hood	32
7 My Teacher Maria	43
8 No Paradise	51
9 No Home	53
10 Jenny	56
11 Lords of Nothing	61
12 Chi-West	67
13 Coward	74
14 Can't Be Normal Even If I Tried	79
15 First Kill	86
16 The Acceptable Difference	91
17 Officer Friendly	94
18 China	97
19 Back to the Hunting Grounds	101
20 Betrayed into a Coma	104
21 Madness	108
22 Rosie	116
23 Convenient Agreement	118
24 My Girl	123
25 Prove Myself Worthy	128
26 Rape	132
27 Crowned	137
28 Violence Rules	151
29 Madman	156
30 Losing Maplewood Park	161
31 My Rosie	167
32 Down Brother	175
33 Poor Rosie	186
34 Juni	189
35 Loca	195
36 Morena, R.I.P	199
37 NRA? Lucky's Death	206
38 Crazy Ways	209
39 Disciplined	214
40 No Lesson Learned	226
41 Spread the Violence	232
42 Enemies Near	237
43 Disowned	240
44 The Way It Is	244
45 Another Addiction	251
46 Close Call	262
47 The Law	265
48 Free?	274
49 Older Woman	278
50 Love Lost	285
51 Lesson Learned, Finally	292
52 Crownless	295
53 Tragedies Continue With or Without Me	298