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Carl Weber's kingpins : West coast / Raynesha Pittman.

by Pittman, Raynesha.

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Urban Books, 2021.

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Carl Weber's kingpins

9781645562054 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Kingpins : West coast

280 p. ; 21 cm.

Perhaps Temper's longing to escape [from the West Coast] is a result of being raised on a road less traveled in an area of South Central Los Angeles, where tourism is obsolete and gang banging and dope slanging reign supreme. Or maybe it's because of the widespread enigma of 'the only way out the hood is over a thirty-foot wall.' If this hood proverb is true, then being born half-black and half-Asian should've given her a ten-foot ladder as a head start. Will her brief escapade with one of the most infamous Crip kingpins force her to twist, toss, and burn her exit plans? Will she give up on the promise she made to her uncle to "bust her ass" to get those missing twenty feet? Or will the chaos be the defibrillator that revives her and provides an escalator ride to freedom?"--Publisher marketing.

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