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Claire MessudClaire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, is fiercely intelligent and urgently intimate, written with precision, humor, and an incredible... Continue »
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Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her foster parents, she turns to the one person she knows she can trust--her boyfriend Chu, a mid-level drug dealer. But when life finally starts looking up for Camille, Chu is brutally murdered. Again feeling abandoned and helpless, and refusing to return to the system, Camille finds herself living with a stable of women in a tiny run-down apartment building in Washington, D.C., working for Nut, a deranged pimp. Fed up with her life, Camille is forced to right her wrongs, and slowly learns that her past does not necessarily determine her future.

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Turning to her drug-dealer boyfriend after being abused by her foster parents, Camille Logan rejects the system that failed her after her boyfriend is brutally murdered and takes work as a prostitute with a group of women out of a Washington, D.C. apartment. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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About the Author

Kia DuPree, a former assistant editor at St. Martins Press, received the Fiction Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association for her debut, self-published novel, Robbing Peter, in 2005. Kia's short story, Lost One, was recently included in #1 Essence bestselling author Shannon Holmes' anthology HOOD 2 HOOD, which was released in March 2008.

Kia holds a B.A. in Mass Media Arts from Hampton University, as well as an M.A. in English from Old Dominion University. Kia currently resides in Washington, DC.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780446558082
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Subject:
Juvenile Fiction : Social Issues - Violence
Author:
Dupree, Kia
Author:
Kia DuPree
Subject:
Washington, d. c.
Subject:
African Americans
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Urban Life
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Literature-A to Z
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Literature-Urban Life
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Publication Date:
20100126
Binding:
ELECTRONIC
Language:
English
Pages:
290
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Fiction and Poetry » Popular Fiction » Suspense

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"Synopsis" by , Turning to her drug-dealer boyfriend after being abused by her foster parents, Camille Logan rejects the system that failed her after her boyfriend is brutally murdered and takes work as a prostitute with a group of women out of a Washington, D.C. apartment. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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