The release date for the English version of 'The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates' by
Wes Moore is Apr 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
New York Times Best Seller • Based on the true story of two children sharing the same name, as told by the governor of Maryland, this is a “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune), and inspiring tale of two kids who grew up to become Rhodes Scholars, decorated combat veterans, White House Fellows, and successful business leaders. The other is incarcerated for the rest of his life.
chosen by Stephen Curry as his "Underrated" selection for Literati Book Club
The terrifying reality is that my narrative may have been his. The sad thing is that my tale may have been his.
A brief article on Wes Moore, a local student who had recently been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, appeared in the Baltimore Sun in December 2000. The same newspaper also published a number of pieces about four young guys who were accused of killing a police officer during an incredibly poorly executed armed robbery. Two brothers who were among the suspects who had escaped were still being sought by the police. Wes Moore was one of them.
Wes was unable to get over the unnerving coincidence or the feeling that they had more in common than simply a newspaper article. He addressed a letter to the other Wes, who was convicted of murder and was now serving a life sentence without the chance of parole, after finishing the account of the heist, the search, and the trial. In his tentative letter, he posed the questions that had been bothering him. You are who? How did this come about?
A few years of contact and friendship were started by that letter. Wes learned via several letters and trips to the jail that the other Wes had lived a life somewhat similar to his own. Both had fatherless childhoods, had troubled histories with the law, and had spent comparable amounts of time hanging out on corners with similar groups of friends. They experienced comparable decision-making situations at every stage of their early lives, but the outcomes of their decisions would surprise them.
The Other Wes Moore narrates the tale of a generation of boys struggling to make their place in a difficult world via alternating dramatic vignettes that lead readers from heartbreaking losses to moments of unexpected salvation.