Blood Bricks and Dandelions

"Blood, Bricks, and Dandelions" is a collection of Kenneth's journals, poems and thoughts from the age of 13 to 18. In 2008, while moving into his new home, Kenneth discovered a box of old high school journals. The bent and torn black and white composition books captured his fight with his parent's drug addictions, the loss of his best friend due to suicide, the discovery of his sexuality, and the first time he fell in love. He realized while reading the entries over and over that these books were no longer an escape from a world he hated but were in fact a road map to a world he loved. He realized that what were once his most precious secrets now needed to be shared with the world. Blood, Bricks and Dandelions is an authentic look in the teenage life of the many young "Kenneths" struggling to grow up young, black and gay in America.