Kamikaze

“A shiny blue Acura with deeply tinted windows sped up to the curb and I jumped into the stranger’s car. And that’s pretty much how my life in New York began—by jumping right in...”



“Just past the porn shop...beyond the burned out house...just after a gritty stretch of potholes and abandoned furniture and auto parts, with a seedy motel directly to the side of our new home, rises a jewel of a new school.”



Never having stepped foot in The Bronx until the day he moved into an apartment he had never seen before, Macy O’Connor takes readers on an eye-opening tour inside public schools within the United States’ largest city and poorest congressional district. The story is most often heart warming, wrenching, and appalling—all at the same time.



Macy O’Connor graduated high school in the great state of Kentucky. His school had a large athletic department, library, and ample green space, sans porn shop. He maintains a teaching position within a public high school in the South Bronx.