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Flip Side of the Game

by Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker · 2004

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Funny, passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner thinks she has it all under control until she meets and greets herself. Born on the flip side of the hustler's game, she is the child of a fifteen year old drug addict who places her in a trash dump, with a note that read, please forgive me... my mother`s only fifteen...

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Well that is of little consolation to Vera as she lives her gold diggin' life full speed ahead, only to come to a crashing halt when she realizes that she can run but she can't hide; and facing up to the Flip Side of the Gameis the only way she will survive.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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