Mitchell Jackson's Essays Recall Growing Up in Pre-Gentrified Northeast Portland
The author is best known for his award-winning debut, a semiautobiographical novel recounting the struggles of a poor black family in pre-gentrified Northeast Portland during the early-1990s crack epidemic.
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