Concrete Dreamland

<B>From an award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York comes a bold personal narrative about overcoming family trauma, addiction, poverty</B>—<B>and forging a creative life in the greatest city in the world. </B><BR/><BR/> Born in Brooklyn in 1963, Patrick Dougher grew up in some of the most turbulent and culturally impactful periods of NYC's history. Often neglected as a child by his parents—a father who struggled with alcohol addiction and an overworked mother who struggled to make ends meet—he learned to fend for himself. Now a renowned visual artist, musician, actor and writer, Dougher brings to the page his memories, struggles, personal revelations, and a life intimately tied to the realities of growing up Black and disenfranchised on the streets of one of the most remarkable cities in the world.<BR/><BR/><I>Concrete Dreamland</I> is tragic and triumphant, gritty and hard, poetic and outrageously funny. Told in Dougher's brutally