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Lady Q : the rise and fall of a Latin queen / Reymundo Sanchez and Sonia Rodriguez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanchez, Reymundo, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangs--Illinois--Chicago.
- Gangs.
- Gang members--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Gang members.
- Sexual abuse victims--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Sexual abuse victims.
- Violence in adolescence--Illinois--Chicago.
- Violence in adolescence.
- Rodriguez, Sonia, 1967-.
- Rodriguez, Sonia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a raw and powerful memoir not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own. At age five Sonia Rodriguez's stepfather began to abuse her; at 10 she was molested by her uncle and beaten by her mother when she told on him; and by 13 her home had become a hangout for the Latin Kings and Queens who were friends with her older sister. Threatened by rival gang members at school, Sonia turned away from her education and
- Contents:
- Touch of love
- Damaged goods
- The birth of a rebel
- Loss of innocence
- Lady Q emerges
- The benefits of royalty
- The queen of talk
- All in the family
- The queen of kings
- Business is personal
- The price of loyalty
- Thy kingdom gone
- Change but still the same
- Moving on, painfully
- If I should die before I wake
- Results of a discarded life.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781569762851
- OCLC:
- 750236159
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