SynopsisAn atypical autobiography in it's quintessential form. The up bringing and experience of Leshawn Ingram exemplifies and highlights the experience of countless minorities in America. A change of names and places and there are countless other minorities in the urban communities in America that can fit this exact mold. His story; a story of the struggles, temptations as well as the decisions one young man had to face in the midst of drug deals, materialism, violence, money, and danger all before puberty. Declaring this book an autobiography of the minorities in the urban communities of the instant wouldn't be misplaced, and truthfully such should be its reception.The key lesson of this book hence it's title, PRODUCT OF MY ENVIRONMENT is one that shouldn't be overlooked. This is the role that osmosis plays unconsciously with the least effort in making a PRODUCT OF IT'S ENVIRONMENT. It is incessant in it's efforts, thus more often than not the losing battle of parents and guardians with their intermittent scolding and punishments.The instant book focus on the individual and the fact that we are up against an enormous adversary, osmosis. However, a focus on the environment, and we have an ally in a desired outcome which again is osmosis. The reason being is that when osmosis impresses on us our formative years, we are at our most vulnerable stage in one respect, and at our most receptive state in another respect, dependent only on the environment we are subject to. The result is easily predictable. In that circumstance the inevitable and invisible forces of osmosis is neither good nor bad. It is just is, with infinite potential to be tapped.