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Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

Author of Love and Consequences fesses up to fabricating

By Caroline Miller,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 4, 2008 7:50 AM CST

(Newser) – Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with...   Read full story »

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