In December of 2000, Wes Moore saw his name in the newspaper when The Baltimore Sun ran a blurb about how he’d just been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to do post graduate work at Oxford.

Wes Moore, . . Random/Spiegel & Grau, $25 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-385-52819-1 Two hauntingly similar boys take starkly different paths in this searing tale of the ghetto.

In the course of his novel, author Wes Moore takes us on a journey, unearthing layers upon layers, answer after answer to this complicated question. “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” is a ...

The other Wes Moore had run-ins with the law. He tried to get out of the drug business and earned his G.E.D and graduated from a jobs program, but he struggled to make enough to support himself ...

Wes Moore’s book ‘The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates’ is out now, published by Spiegel & Grau.

“The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” By Wes Moore Spiegel & Grau, 233 pages, $25 It’s one of those truth-is-stranger-than-fiction stories — and if it weren’t true, it would be a ...