Alabama Village: Faith, Hope, and Survival in a Southern Town

"J. Malcolm Garcia’s intimate portraits of young people struggling to survive in a rough neighborhood outside Mobile, Ala., are heartbreaking and, yet, somehow hopeful at the same time. We meet them through their connection to a church established by a Christian couple who see the good at the core of people whom society has largely written off. The community is plagued by gun violence, blight, generational poverty and addiction. Too many people don’t live to be 30. The storytelling is powerful: “Death has as much of a presence in the Village as the people living here, attaches to them like a second shadow.”"