Dog Food
Audio-liburu honi buruz
It’s a dog-eat-dog world—especially when all the dogs are hungry.
For a sheltered mama’s boy like Demarcus, everything was coming up roses until a life-changing experience showed him that every rose has thorns. After a well-orchestrated set-up, Demarcus’ plans to go to college are derailed by a trip to state prison. It is while in the belly of the beast that the mama’s boy has to make the choice between being a man—or being a victim.
Upon his release, Demarcus tries to get his life back on track, but his felony conviction causes door after door to be slammed in his face. Going to college is no longer an option, and flipping burgers is not in his plans. With little other choice, Demarcus applies the lessons learned in prison and takes to the streets, where he gets caught up in selling heroin, known on the streets as Dog Food. When all hell breaks loose between the major dealers in Memphis over the city’s heroin distribution, Demarcus finds himself on the losing side of a bloody drug war. As he prepares for the showdown with his opposition, he begins to uncover truths about his past, including what happened that fateful night of his arrest.
To add insult to injury, when he finally stands face-to-face with his enemy, he discovers that the face is a familiar one. They say that blood is thicker than water, but when it comes to cash, sometimes even those closest to you will try to do you in.
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Egileari buruz
Raynesha Pittman is a prime example of the saying “What we come from does not dictate what we will go on to be.” An honors student and certified as gifted, she was in a Los Angeles juvenile corrections center when she discovered her love for writing. Her first novel, Kismet, was published in 2010. Pittman has since published several more books. She was nominated in the Hip Hop in the Ville Awards for Best Indie Author of the Year in January 2012 and was also nominated in the Prodigy Publishing Group’s second annual Urban Literary Awards for Most Likely to Succeed Debut Author of the Year in February 2012. In 2015 she was nominated for Journalist of the Year in the Southern Entertainment Awards.
Nicole Small (a.k.a. Shayna Small) is an actress/singer born and raised in Chicago. In the middle of her freshman year of high school she relocated to Baltimore to attend a performing arts school. She holds a BFA in drama at the Juilliard School. Her theater credits include Hurt Village and The Threepenny Opera.
