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Pam B Orren
Jul 16, 2022 rated it liked it
2.5, rounded up. This was an extremely difficult book to read, but I felt compelled to complete it. The author is very young and was the youth poet laurate in Oakland prior to finishing this novel. It tells the gritty story of a minor, Kiara, forced into prostitution by law enforcement. She has tenuous connections with her mother, who was in a half-way house for the criminally insane, with her brother, Marcus, who is trying to make it as a rapper, and a young neighbor boy whose own mother has vi ...more
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