To Be Hood
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Last published Thu, May 26, 2016
Genesis Chandler doesn't know the meaning of the word struggle.After the arrest of her notorious father,she is whisked away from Harlem,the only place she has ever called home,to be raised in a Affluent neighborhood in The Bronx.Her mother and stepfather shower her with the best that life has to offer.During her senior year in high school,she convinces her parents to let her transfer from Catholic school to attend Public School.That is the start of her problems-but its hardly the end.
In her new school, Genesis is reunited with the friends she was forced to move away from,and starts to drift further and further from the life her mother and stepfather have built for her.To the sheltered Genesis,the Harlem under world is like one big headache.Things promise to get even more interesting when she starts dating a drugdealer named Kaine.He introduces her to his world of sex,money,and drugs,dragging Genesis along with him on a long and bitter ride into the bowels of addiction.
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