cover image Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Sanyika Shakur, Monster Kody Scott. Penguin Books, $13.95 (383pp) ISBN 978-0-14-023225-7

This dispatch from a maximum-security prison chronicles Scott's transformation from a "gangbanging ghetto star'' to an evangelical proponent of black nationalism. (May)