Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother's boyfriend. Partying hard to forget her troubled past, she winds up on the arm of Born-the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. And, danger...
"With powerfully vivid language, Brown renders the astronomical highs and heartrending lows of a beautiful but damaged young woman's struggle with crack addiction..."
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"Brown's characters are sympathetically drawn, and the Goodfellas-like take on the gangster life is eye-opening."