NEEDS portrays Baltimore’s drug world as only a recovering addict can show it—from the alleys to the precincts, the neighborhoods to the ‘hoods, the dives to the churches—shown through the eyes of a pair of police detectives who also are a romantic couple (and one of the pair is a heroin addict), the dealers, the down and out, the down but rising. You’ll hear their street voices and their inner voices, and you’ll know more about their world than you ever thought you could. You may also know more about your own.
| Publication Date | Jan 1, 2012 |
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Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown is a recovering addict who is now making a career of helping other addicts in Baltimore. He speaks and reads from his writings at venues such as the Eubie Blake Center and the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as in various community organizations. A longtime poet, Brown completed the novel NEEDS as part of a fiction-writing course at Johns Hopkins University.
