![]() It exposes the ugly side of project-life, hustling, and using sex as a tool. ![]() Tyrell, Coe Booth's debut novel, is urban/street/ghetto fiction taken to a higher level. ![]() I've seen some of these stories close up in real life and there's nothing good about them, so I'm baffled by the embrace of them. I'm straight up 'hood born and 'hood raised. Lest you think me some suburb-rised cultural elitest, let me set you straight. These books glorify an opportunisitic, materialistic, sexist, violent, and sometimes criminal world that teens live or wish to live. As a Young Adult librarian, I inwardly (barely) frown upon any teenager's craving for the so-called street/hip-hop/urban fiction that has become a force to be reckoned with in the literary world. ![]()
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