Maya blue : a memoir of survival
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW MEMOIR/COFFEE,B

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Biography & Memoir NEW MEMOIR/COFFEE,B Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2025
DESCRIPTION

269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781647429065, 1647429064 :, 1647429064, 9781647429065
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"At twenty-one, Brenda Coffee surrendered herself to her marriage and became a woman who would do almost anything her charismatic and powerful older husband, Philip Ray, wanted. Regardless of whether it was dangerous, adventurous, sexual, or illegal, she wanted to be the one woman he couldn't live without. Brenda and Philip's life together was a fairy tale until it wasn't. Until Philip, the founder of two high-profile, groundbreaking public companies, began making real cocaine in their basement and became addicted. Until the Big Six tobacco companies threatened their lives for creating the first smokeless cigarette--Brenda coined the terms vape and vaping--and brutal Guatemalan military commandos forced her into the jungle at gunpoint."--Publisher