Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 📖

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole
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contemporary fiction crime drama past tense third limited POV ~667 pp

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gritty traumatic raw

A dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 30
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 50%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count166,759
Page count~667 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited