Its not easy growing up in lower Alabama tall and ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Too-Sweet learned early on that the only way to keep kids from picking on her and chucking rocks and shit was to knock fire from their asses. If Too-Sweet hadn't liked being a girl so much, he could of boxed like his older brothers and maybe of turned pro. Tired of lower Alabama Too-Sweet decided to head out to San Francisco and make her fame and fortune. One day while whoring and taking a worthless check, Too-Sweet inadvertently robs a bank and a star is born. Divas is a transgender bar in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The owner, Abdul, is an Arab who looks like Yasser Arafat on a bad hair day. Think of DIVAS as sort of like the TV show Cheers--if the cast was a bunch of crazy queens who mostly turn tricks out front of the club on the stroll. But what sets the story are two redneck robbery/homicide detectives Percy Hobitch and Myron Ledbetter who work for the SFPD. They like nothing better than to torment the denizens of the T.L.. The author Ralph Griffith admits that writing a comedy about transexual bank robbers and two serial killers might sound strange, but it comes off beautifully as a well written cult classic.. The author guarantees that you have never read a story as wild as this and although he calls it fiction the characters are for real.
Ralph Griffith is an intriguing American author with a life story that reads like a gripping novel itself. Known for his crime and mystery novels, his literary career began during his incarceration, where he spent over 30 years, including a final 14-year stretch that inspired his memoirs "Monkey House" and "The Real Bernie Madoff".
Ralph Griffith es un fascinante autor estadounidense cuya historia de vida se lee como una novela apasionante. Conocido por sus novelas policiales y de misterio, su carrera literaria comenzó durante su encarcelamiento, donde pasó más de 30 años, incluido un tramo final de 14 años que inspiró sus memorias "Monkey House" y "The Real Bernie Madoff".
Las obras notables de Griffith incluyen:
Los misterios del asesinato de Harry Chin
Las novelas de detectives de Johnny Walker
Las novelas de Clyde Thomas
Las sagas Too-Sweet
Las novelas de Big Huna
Las crónicas de Griffith
Hoy, continúa escribiendo desde su casa en el noroeste del Pacífico.
This book is way different than I'm used to. But I loved it. It is a murder mystery. An added bonus is the satirical comedy also included. It's like two books in one. I will say if you are an overtly sensitive person then it may not be your kind of read. Being raised by people that grew up in the south, I understood the southern slang well. Ralph Griffith is an amazing writer that has a unique way of story telling, he has a gift that is very rare among most authors these day. The book is very well written, gets you wrapped up in it. You can't wait to see what happens next. I'm not going into the story here like usual, this is something you can only get into with your own opinion. But I loved it. Maybe you will too.