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In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780385528207","publication_date":"20110111","publisher":"Random House Publishing Group","slug":"the-other-wes-moore","subtitle":"One Name, Two Fates","title":"The Other Wes Moore"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"BIO002010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Black & African American Lives","score":0.7462,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN038110","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American U.S. History for Teens","score":0.7233,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN051120","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Homelessness & Poverty for Teens","score":0.7185,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"BIO002010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Black & African American Lives","score":0.7462,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN038110","confidence_band":"medium","label":"African American U.S. History for Teens","score":0.7233,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN051120","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Homelessness & Poverty for Teens","score":0.7185,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO002010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Black & African American Lives","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BIO026000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Personal Memoirs","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC020000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Minority Studies","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Black & African American Lives","score":0.7462,"slug":"black-african-american-lives"},{"label":"African American U.S. History for Teens","score":0.7233,"slug":"african-american-u-s-history-for-teens"},{"label":"Homelessness & Poverty for Teens","score":0.7185,"slug":"homelessness-poverty-for-teens"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in how similar beginnings can lead to different destinies","Readers drawn to true stories of hardship, crime, and redemption"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Wes Moore"],"book_id":"9780385741682","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780385741682.jpg?v=3e7bb04129358543","score":0.8674,"title":"Discovering Wes Moore","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780385741682"},{"authors":["Anthony Ray Hinton","Lara Love Hardin"],"book_id":"9781250309471","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250309471.jpg?v=33d9fa56825ae2ca","score":0.6766,"title":"The Sun Does Shine","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250309471"},{"authors":["Ta-Nehisi Coates"],"book_id":"9780812993547","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780812993547.jpg?v=cf55628171d74883","score":0.6752,"title":"Between the World and Me","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780812993547"},{"authors":["Alex Kotlowitz"],"book_id":"9780385265560","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780385265560.jpg?v=d16f39b338273152","score":0.6555,"title":"There Are No Children Here","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780385265560"},{"authors":["Bryan Stevenson"],"book_id":"9780812984965","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780812984965.jpg?v=9b43b84a9def0cc3","score":0.6499,"title":"Just Mercy","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780812984965"},{"authors":["J. 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