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Bob Powers was a reckless teenage gang member when he first met photographer Bruce Davidson in 1959. Davidson photographed Bengie—as he was then known—and his fellow gangsters whose lives consisted of theft and fights armed with bats, pipes, and improvised handguns. After several months, his project complete, Davidson left Powers and the poverty of South Brooklyn to continue what would become his career as a world-renowned photographer.Almost forty years later, Davidson received a phone call from Powers, now aged and weathered. Powers then met Bruce Davidson’s wife, Emily Davidson, who continued an in-depth conversation with him over the next ten years. He told her about his childhood steeped in violence, poverty, illiteracy, and fear hidden beneath a mask of toughness and indifference. He discussed his teenage years of endless knife fights, alcohol addiction, and a budding hatred for himself and for the world. And he told her about the drugs. In his twenties, Powers began dealing everything from heroin to crystal meth, earning millions time and again before invariably squandering it all on his own addiction to the substances he sold. Before long he was homeless, alone, and on the verge of death.Finally, just forty years old and barely alive, Powers checked into detox for the second time. He learned how to read. Slowly and painfully, he began restoring the relationships he’d allowed to wither for the sake of his addictions. In some cases it was too late, but not in all.Bobby’s Book is the story that emerged from those conversations with Emily Davidson. It is the story of fear, loss, criminality, and ultimately redemption thanks to community and family. With the help of Narcotics Anonymous and crucial support programs, Powers survived to discover that family was the most important part of his life.In the delicate hands of Emily Davidson, writing Powers’s story became telling it in his voice—captivating and poetically frank. Together with Bruce Davidson’s impeccable photographs, Bobby’s Book shows us life in all its harrowing beauty.