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My Mama was not my enemy, but rather, my lesson. Mama and Us is a Non-Fiction based upon the experiences of a very impressionable young girl, who moves into her step-grandmother's old house. She is overcome with wild, child like imaginations, of haunting ghosts and spirits, driven by the desire to escape her current reality and the need for attention. She is forced to endure hidden emotions of inadequacy, self pity, anger, jealousy, resentment and hate, especially after her mother dies, leaving her with unanswered questions. Her outlandish perception of things and wild imagination, will take one on a journey experiencing, heart-ache, death, sex and love, while embracing emotional highs and lows surrounding a sadistic step-father and a resentful, alcoholic mother, who makes for raising five girls and two boys, an impossible voyage.
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November 17, 2006: A very easy to read, exciting, eventful,heartbreaking story that you will not want to put down, once you start reading, with incredible unbelievable events. I look forward to the next book this young writer puts out.
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April 12, 2006: In a nutshell, Mama and Us is a painful yet amazingly true story about family and unrelated folks, poor folks, mixed race folks, abuse, a host of folks struggling to survive. 'Mama said there'd be days like this...' The characters in Mama and Us had more than their fair share. Dysfunction begets dysfunction here, generation after generation. The misspellings, grammatical errors, poor sentence structure, etc. were distracting and made this book difficult reading, but I couldn't turn away from it. Kudos to the author for her strength - that she survived and is 'functional' enough to share her story is amazing. I wepted and cheered. Mama and Us is raw -- and a rare find.