Strawberry Mansion: A Philadelphia Story...
Tabitha Williams, nineteen, doubles as a punching bag every time her boyfriend drinks one too many. When she stabs him and flees to her mother’s house with her three-year-old daughter, she thinks it’s finally over. Unfortunately, the drama has just begun! “Will she find the courage to leave him for good? And will he let her?”
Lisa Perkins, seventeen, is the “strong one,” or at least that’s what Tabitha and Shanice think. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth. When she leaves her home after her mother refuses to believe that her stepfather has raped and impregnated her, she thinks that distance will solve everything. She finds that she couldn’t be more wrong.
Shanice Thomas, fourteen, is giving teenage rebellion a whole knew meaning. Her mother recently found Christ, and the party that was Shanice’s life is apparently over. Thrust into situations she isn’t equipped to handle, Shanice suddenly finds herself learning painful new lessons about the consequences of sleeping around.
Strawberry Mansion: A Philadelphia Story is fierce fiction peppered with urban grit! It not only explores the girls’ struggles in vivid detail, it highlights their loyalty, love, and kindness for each other! You won’t be able to put this book down!
This is a journey of three Sista-friends, Tabitha, Lisa and Shanice. You will not only recognize them, you will feel them instantly, because they love and laugh, hurt and cry and dream the dreams we all dare to dream. Each one is seeking to get through, get past, get over, and to survive inside the lives they were handed. You will relate to their struggle. You will applaud their victories. With realistic precision, debut author Julia Press Simmons has penned a modern day opus!
~ L.M. Ross, author of "Manhood," and "The Moanin' After"
Julia Press Simmons is an award winning Spoken word Artist, and Playwright. She currently lives in central Pennsylvania with her husband, Ben Achebe, and their two sons, Lamont and Amir. Julia is the owner of Queen Midas Books and is currently working on her next novel, Begonia Brown: A Philadelphia Story.
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