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Sweets
Sweets Maybrey is hard. In the language of the streets, this describes an individual who uses fists first, words second, to solve his problems.
Sweets’ father disappears into the vicious Philly ghetto called the Bottom, trailed by police who say he killed a man.
Sweets melts back into the Bottom, quickly regaining his street-smarts while asserting the violence of his nature. He needs these tools to overcome the cops, street hustlers, and random criminals who inhabit the ’hood. Everything he knows tells him that his father is innocent. As more bodies appear, killed identically and each one known to his father, Sweets begins to wonder. Perhaps the cops are right and his beloved father is a killer.
Carefully, clue by clue, Sweets reveals his father, the real man. As he does, he also reveals himself and comes to grips with his own violent past, long submerged, which he now has to bring to bear to save his father, his friend, and himself. Having embraced violence as a means to an end, will Sweets be strong enough to again leave it behind once he uncovers the truth or will the good in him die in The Bottom?
Sweets’ father disappears into the vicious Philly ghetto called the Bottom, trailed by police who say he killed a man.
Sweets melts back into the Bottom, quickly regaining his street-smarts while asserting the violence of his nature. He needs these tools to overcome the cops, street hustlers, and random criminals who inhabit the ’hood. Everything he knows tells him that his father is innocent. As more bodies appear, killed identically and each one known to his father, Sweets begins to wonder. Perhaps the cops are right and his beloved father is a killer.
Carefully, clue by clue, Sweets reveals his father, the real man. As he does, he also reveals himself and comes to grips with his own violent past, long submerged, which he now has to bring to bear to save his father, his friend, and himself. Having embraced violence as a means to an end, will Sweets be strong enough to again leave it behind once he uncovers the truth or will the good in him die in The Bottom?
- GenresUrban
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 2, 2011
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September 4, 2018
Hard kid trying to make it in a hard world
Sweets is a tough kid who has been in trouble before, now he's trying to save his father from the cops and an unknown killer. Even though plenty of people tell him to go home because his father would want him to and his father could take care of himself, he just can't do it, then fate steps in and a life he didn't expect is his and he starts to like it.
Sweets is a tough kid who has been in trouble before, now he's trying to save his father from the cops and an unknown killer. Even though plenty of people tell him to go home because his father would want him to and his father could take care of himself, he just can't do it, then fate steps in and a life he didn't expect is his and he starts to like it.
March 18, 2020
Good read
Young guy, growing up in Philly, gets into some scrapes. Lots of action, and descriptions of Center City. I lived in the same area, over 30 years ago.
Young guy, growing up in Philly, gets into some scrapes. Lots of action, and descriptions of Center City. I lived in the same area, over 30 years ago.
April 18, 2020
Competing reading
Insights into racism, lack of opportunity, police brutality, gang lifestyle. Is the main character a hero a villain or both?
Insights into racism, lack of opportunity, police brutality, gang lifestyle. Is the main character a hero a villain or both?
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews