| The People vs Cashmere Contributor(s): Williams, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 193396779X ISBN-13: 9781933967790 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: This emotionally gripping novel follows the plight of two orphaned sisters who are thrown into a world of drugs, violence, and sex, in a struggle to survive. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | African American - Urban - Fiction | African American - Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008924561 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.52" W x 8.26" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Meet the Pierce family. Desmond Pierce, a hard-working man from the South is determined to give his and wife and daughters a good life in Compton, California. Pearla Pierce is a sexy and seductive mother who plays wifey and devoted mother only when her husband is home. Then there's Carmen, a promiscuous seventeen-year-old on a self-destructive path and jealous of her younger sister. Cashmere, a thirteen-year-old, struggles to hold her family together out of love for her father. When tragedy hits home, Carmen and Cashmere find themselves orphans living with their hateful aunt and having to resort to stripping and selling drugs to survive. Carmen drags Cashmere into a world of drugs, violence and sex when she allows a ruthless pimp named Black to turn her out. Against her will, Cashmere is also forced to work for Black by prostituting herself for high-class ballers. Carmen's jealousy toward her younger sister continues when she sees Black falling in love with Cashmere. Carmen's need to destroy her sister sets off a chain of events that lands Cashmere in jail. Cashmere is left alone and broken, but with the hope that some way, somehow, she can be fixed. |