Outside reading

In my book that i am reading Gang leader for a day, the main character Sudhir Venkatesh, is a college sociology student. He is asked by one of his professors to help out in a study about poor black young adults living in the projects. He gets many surveys and sets off to the projects after entering a building that is gross he finds a group of young black men he tells them why he is there and they don't believe him they think he is from another gang there to spy on them. After spending the night there in a stair well being watched with no sleep he makes a new friend. His new friends name is JT and he happens to be on the higher end of the black nights a gang around there. After he gets home he cant even think about sleeping after all that has just happened. Sudhir is in for allot.