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Leaving Breezy street : a memoir / Brenda Myers-Powell with April Reynolds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers-Powell, Brenda, author.
- Reynolds, April, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myers-Powell, Brenda.
- Ex-prostitutes--United States--Biography.
- Ex-prostitutes.
- Prostitutes--Rehabilitation--United States--Biography.
- Prostitutes.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--United States--Biography.
- Drug addicts.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Prostitutes--Rehabilitation.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
- Summary:
- "What did Brenda Myers-Powell want? When she turned to prostitution at the age of fifteen, she wanted to support her two baby daughters and have a little money for herself. She was pretty and funny as hell, and although she called herself "Breezy," she was also tough--a survivor in every sense of the word. Over the next twenty-five years, she would move across the country, finding new pimps, parties, drugs, and endless, profound heartache. And she would begin to want something else, something huge: a life of dignity, self-acceptance, and love. Astonishingly, she managed to find the strength to break from an unsparing world and save not only herself but also future Breezys. We have no say into which worlds we are born. But sometimes we can find a way out." -- inside front jacket flap.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I It starts in the family
- 1. Life With Ma'Dea
- 2. Where's My Shine?
- 3. Suburban Bullshit
- pt. II What's in the mirror is not always who you are
- 4. The Making Of A Real Ho
- 5. When The Gorilla Pimps Want You
- pt. III Fake love can never own you
- 6. The Beginning Of The Lie
- 7. Loving The Knockout
- 8. The Gangster Pimp
- 9. Love In The Game
- pt. IV Running
- 10. Chi Town's Finest
- 11. The Tricks Of The Trade
- 12. Keep It Moving
- 13. The Unforgivable Things We Do
- 14. Famous In California
- 15. Friends? How Many Of Us Have Them?
- 16. The Facts Of Life
- 17. Madison Street
- 18. Chicago, Take Two
- 19. Chicago, Take Two, For Real
- 20. Me, Living With Me
- 21. A Funeral For Breezy.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Myers-Powell, Brenda. Leaving Breezy Street
- ISBN:
- 9780374151690
- 0374151695
- OCLC:
- 1182021249
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