The Turnaround: George Pelecanos

Wow, I really thought this book was going to end unhappily and was completely unprepared for it to continue to be uplifting. the book starts with a group of white boys driving around a black neighborhood. One of the boys throws something out the window and hits a boy in the chest. the road they are on then dead ends- the title is about both this and the way the boys turned their lives around. The night ends with one boy running away from his two friends in the car leaving one to be killed and one to be scarred for life. In present day the boy with the gun, his brother, and the scarred boy meet up and become friends and start a business, there are other characters, but seeing that I have pretty much ruined the book for anyone who hasn't read it, I'll leave them as a surprise.