Letters to GilLetters to Gil is Malik Al Nasirs profound coming of age memoir the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a new sense of self worth under the wing of the great artist, poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott Heron. Born in Liverpool, Malik was taken into care at the age of nine after his seafaring father became paralysed. He would spend his adolescence in a system that proved violent, neglectful, exploitative, traumatising and