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That White Girl: A Novel

That White Girl: A Novel

ISBN: 0743287819

Title: That White Girl: A Novel

Author: JLove

Amazon Description:

That White Girl is a fresh and hard-edged novel chronicling a young woman’s quest for self-discovery while straddling two worlds, that of her middle-class Irish Catholic upbringing and her new family—the Crips, America’s notorious street gang.

What happens when a white girl flirts with the color lines and crosses

the border into gang territory, where the bullets are in part real and the rules

cannot be broken? JLove tells this incredible story inspired by her own

remarkable life.

Amber, a fearless white girl, has a passion for rap lyrics and

an addiction to graffiti, but her journey begins when she becomes

immersed in the power and grind of gang life after holding a gun to an

innocent man’s head during a robbery.

That White Girl is a sharp and candid coming-of-age story, with hip-hop as its backdrop, that explores a young woman’s struggles and triumphs as she crosses boundaries, discovers her own limits, and finds a new way to express herself in a world divided into black and white.