Always Running

Always Running

"Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." (ISBN 0-671-88231-7) is a 1993 book by Mexican-American author Luis J. Rodriguez.

Luis J. Rodriguez writes this book for his son. It is a memoir of his youth as a member of a street gang in Los Angeles (specifically, East Los Angeles and the city's eastern suburbs), which has been highly acclaimed and contrasaesed to the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London" in its description of the lives of desperate, impoverished individuals in big cities.

The book has been banned by many school districts in the U.S. for its frank sexual realism.

This memoir contains vulgar language, however, it is to emphasize the themes and realities of his childhood.

There is speculation of a film adaptation in the works.


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