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About White Lines
Product Description Essence bestselling author Tracy Brown's scorching new urban tale about falling in love and one girl's descent into the murky and unrelenting depths of drug addiction 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. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn't save her from a crack addiction. Jada goes from crack addict and prostitute to survivor and back again before she finds the strength to live for herself and come out on top. And her stormy romance with one of the fiercest hustlers on the streets makes White Lines one of the most unforgettable urban loves stories of the year. From Publishers Weekly Brown's epic (after Criminal Minded) explores New York's ghettoes of the 1980s and '90s, following two characters caught up in the crack epidemic. Brooklynite Jada turns to the drug to numb the pain caused by an abusive stepfather and helpless mother. Her transformation from feisty teenager into crackhead is rapid and explicit, and Brown spares no wretched detail of Jada's descent. Meanwhile, on Staten Island, Born is growing from the impressionable son of a legendary "Original Gangster" into a hardcore hustler in his own right, fueled in part by the hurt over his father's weakness for the rock. When Born and a newly clean Jada cross paths as young adults, their common survivor spirit sparks a fairy tale love, and for a time, they live the blinged-out high life together. But one careless snort of coke at a party sends Jada spiraling again, and Born shuns her. It's not long before strung-out Jada hits bottom. Jada and Born reunite years later after escaping the drug world, but the overlong conclusion devolves into redundancy as the lessons learned pile up. As ugly as their actions can be, Brown's characters are sympathetically drawn, and the Goodfellas-like take on the gangster life is eye-opening. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "As ugly as their actions can be, Brown's characters are sympathetically drawn, and the Goodfellas-like take on the gangster life is eye-opening." - Publishers Weekly About the Author Tracy Brown is the Essence bestselling author of Aftermath, Snapped, Twisted, White Lines and Criminal Minded. Writing has always been her passion, and she finds it an honor to depict for her readers the things she’s seen and heard. She is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Staten Island. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter OneA House of CardsBrooklyn, 1990”You don’t fuckin’ listen! I told you to come out of that room, Ava. I was knocking on the door, and all I heard was your nasty ass moaning.””Whatever, Jada!” Ava smoothed her hair out of her face, and popped her gum.Jada and Ava knew they were in trouble. They were supposed to be home by the time the streetlights came on. But it had been dark for a while now, and they knew they were in for it. At sixteen and fourteen years old, respectively, boys were their favorite pastime, and they had snuck off to meet a couple of them.”Whatever my ass. I told you to stop letting these li’l niggas touch on you and hump you and shit.” Jada looked at her sister with disapproval all over her face.”Jada, stop fuckin’ preaching all the time. I only let Derek do all that. And you ain’t no saint. Don’t sit there and act like you wasn’t in the living room with Marlon being just as nasty. So--””So, nothing! I knew when it was time to go home, though. We should have been home a long time ago, but your nasty ass didn’t want to leave. And you never listen to me when I tell you that we gotta go. Whenever we go somewhere together, and you don’t want to leave, I can’t leave you behind. You’re my sister. Anything can happen out here. And now ‘cause of you, we’re
