Gracey Fill has just been arrested during a narcotics raid aimed at busting one of the biggest drug runners Atlanta has ever known: her ex-husband, Sonny. In the questioning room, Gracey vividly recounts her story, from the
childhood abuse she suffered at the hands of her father to the adult addiction that almost
destroyed her. Two officers, one young and naive, the other jaded and surly, become her de facto audience. Meanwhile, Deneeka Jones, a cross-dresser who turns tricks and deals drugs for Sonny, is fighting for survival in the get-off houses and male strip joints of Atlanta's seediest neighborhoods. She is also selling dope to Frazier Sky and Audrey Sullivan, teenaged children of…
In her second novel, Suzanne Kingsbury brings beauty and hope to this story of the drug world of Atlanta. And she manages to do it without an ounce of cheese, melodrama, or unreality. She shows us how… Addiction, Life on the street, Sociological contrast and comparisons... Sure, these topics have been touched before. Set the novel in the capital of the bible belt, centered around the
rebirth of our…
