The Other Wes Moore

I started reading a book called, "The Other Wes Moore" that looks at two men with oddly similar lives. They are both black males living in the same Baltimore neighborhood, growing up in the same time period. Both had similar family and financial situations but 20 years later, they are in gravely different places. One resides at a state penitentiary where he will be until the day he dies and the other, an alumnus at John's Hopkins University, is married and a successful published author. As of the first few chapters, the book has described the early lives of these two young boys. Both of their fathers were gone before their eighth birthday. One Father left due to a drug addiction and a lifeless demeanor, the other died because of a misdiagnosis at a local hospital. "The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his."