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Christmas in the Hood

by Nikki Turner
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The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season.
Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth “Soul Man” Ferranti–all writing gritty tales that reveal what the holidays bring for the naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street. In “Secret Santa,” after her children’s Christmas presents are stolen, a woman has to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to give them the holiday they deserve; in “Me and Grandma,” a senior sleighs more crack than candy canes to bring Christmas cheer to her needy grandkids; and in “Holiday Hell,” Noelle must raise $23,000 to repay a loan shark or her sister will become a ghost of Christmas past. True to the streets and true to the season, these stories will raise the holiday spirit in the heart of even the most ghetto-hardened gangsta.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife.

“The ghetto’s voice without constraint.”—Upscale, on Tales from da Hood

  • Creators

  • Series

    Street Chronicles

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 30, 2008

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780307494474

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780307494474
      • File size: 3357 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2007
      Hip-hop author Turner ("Forever a Hustler's Wife") introduces five new street lit authors in this first urban lit holiday anthology and the third "Street Chronicles" collection (after "Tales from da Hood" and "Girls in the Game"). In Mo Shines's "Me and Grandma," Grandma works with two drug dealers to see that every child on the block has presents under the tree. In K. Elliott's "Secret Santa," stripper/prostitute Shante Morgan (aka Foreplay) wants a stable man in her life for Christmas. And in Dee Blackmon's "Holiday Hell," Noelle has until Christmas Eve to pay the ransom for her kidnapped sister. For street lit/urban fiction collections.

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • English

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