Son of a prominent street pharmaceutical family. Quick-witted and business-minded, he knows & loves the game like Kobe. But he's put to the test of a lifetime.

Even before artists like Tupac Shakur, Nas and Scarface were telling the story of growing up in poor, urban environments through their music, writers like Iceberg Slim and Claude Brown were describing life on the streets in books that spawned the literary genre known as urban fiction or “street lit.” Stories that ring true, spare no gritty detail and tend to be set in a city or urban landscape have been around for quite a while. But a recent title written by Oakdale Boonce "Book Of Boonce" is helping to engage a new generation of readers. Oakdale Boonce has contributed a great work to the urban literature genre, as a whole. And, for that, you cannot help but appreciate his penmanship. Following “Book Of Boonce” recent release, the book has exploded in popularity and has quickly won acclaim among readers.

It’s almost unheard of for a book to dominate public conversation well before even being published. Yet Oakdale Boonce book, Book of Boonce done just that after several explosive and intimate claims about his life within his notorious family came to light. Of course, everyone hasn’t read it yet, but the talent of this writer has many readers excited. Most authors of urban literature draw on their experiences of growing up amid the rough-and-tumble of the inner-city. Oakdale Boonce, 51, was raised mostly in Grand Rapids by his grandmother through the 70's while succumbing to the late 1980's crack epidemic. He and his family find themselves caught up in the vicious, yet seductive, world of drugs and money, only to find that success in the Game is no easy win. Book of Boonce is considered a 'street classic' and is finding a place in the hearts of its readers with a story like no other. The Grand Rapids native is on the path to joining some well recognized independent publisher's Best Sellers lists.