Cultural Writing. African American Studies. SCARS OF THE SOUL is a confessional, stylistic account (in the Joan Didion tradition) of coming-of-age in the Bronx alongside the birth and evolution of hip-hop culture. "Lewis has composed an observant and urban B-boy's rites of passage...a hiphop buldungsroman told in prose full of buoyancy and bounce"-Greg Tate, author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk. With a preface by internationally acclaimed poet and actor Saul Williams.