Riding Dirty on I-95
by Nikki Turner
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife.Queen of hip hop fiction Nikki Turner follows her gritty, emotionally charged novel The Glamorous Life with this new tale from the hood featuring a beautiful down-on-her-luck sister who can out-hustle the best of them as she rises from the ghetto to glory.
After Mercy’s beloved dad is murdered in cold blood on her seventh birthday, her mother show more gives her up to foster care. But despite an unsavory upbringing, Mercy vows to make something of herself–at all costs.
Working as a concierge at a hotel notorious for its shady clientele, Mercy meets and falls hard for a notorious dealer who keeps her living large in Gucci clothes and off-the-hook apartments. Then she lands a real lucrative deal: running drugs up Interstate 95 from Miami to New York.
But Mercy doesn’t want to live the gangsta life forever. She’s got bigger... show less
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Meh.
Chronic wish-fulfillment is hardly ever interesting. I confess I abandoned this one a little over halfway through.
Chronic wish-fulfillment is hardly ever interesting. I confess I abandoned this one a little over halfway through.
OMG i hated this book
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Before becoming a full-time author, Nikki Turner worked as a travel agent. She published her first novel, A Hustler's Wife, in 2002. Her other works include Black Widow, A Project Chick, Forever a Hustler's Wife, The Glamorous Life, and Riding Dirty on I-95. (Bowker Author Biography)
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