Hooghanaa's Sun

Before greatness has a name, it has a neighborhood. Before a legend takes shape, it carries the weight of home.

Off the shores of Cleveland, in the middle of Lake Erie, sits the island slum of Hooghanaa-a place forgotten by maps but carved into the memory of every soul who's survived its streets. It's here, barefoot on clay and concrete, that fourteen-year-old Tudi Yhakur runs. Not from trouble, but toward a future the world swears isn't his to have.

In a neighborhood where grief walks hand-i...