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PUBLISHED
New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
©2025
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
215 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063205697, 0063205696 :, 0063205696, 9780063205697
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was "grown." Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a "mainline mama," a parent facing the task of raising a child--while still growing up herself--with an incarcerated partner