Bøger af Eva S Pinkney

Betrayed by the two people she trusted most-her man and her best friend-Amber Hayden can't help but compare her reaction to the erratic behavior of her schizophrenic mother. She doesn't like to admit it, but at the back of Amber's mind lurks a frightening thought: Will she wind up like her mother? The question stirs up memories of her childhood. The year is 1963. Across the road from the Haydens' home lies Ms. Lola's house of ill repute, a center of gambling and prostitution in Amber's inner-city neighborhood in Washington, DC. And that's where Amber runs whenever her home life gets too much. Amber tries to cling to some semblance of a normal life even as secrets pile up around her and her friends: Ms. Lola's talented son, Fats; her best friend, Chloe; and Fats's buddy Desi. These secrets cement Amber's friendship with Chloe but earn her Desi's hatred. When the secret forcing a wedge between Desi and Amber becomes too much for Desi to bear, he launches a potentially fatal scheme. A touching coming-of-age story about growing up in the shadow of mental illness, Crazy Is as Crazy Does fearlessly tackles themes too long considered taboo.

Crazy Is As Crazy Does Part 2 is the continuation of Part 1, the novella. Amber Hayden is now fourteen years old and running a . neighborhood drug operation for Fats and Desi, her childhood friends. She's still dealing with a schizophrenic mother who is in and out of St. Elizabeths Mental Hospital for months on end. Her father must work endless hours to take care of the family. Her brother Chris has now been drafted into the army. She has far more freedom than any teenager, no matter what the age, should be allowed.She's mature beyond her years following behind her mother's best friend, Ms. Lola, who runs a brothel on the corner providing everything from bootleg liquor, numbers, prostitutes and an occasional back-alley abortion.Amber's escape from her mother's wrath is her new found love for the Go-Go. Live music and dancing until the wee hours of the morning has become her refuge and where she meets an older man, a living legend in the city. The two fall in love and it is pure bliss until it isn't.Amber finds herself caught up in a world of murder, sex, drugs and deceit. Will a young girl fighting anxiety and depression survive the streets or succumb to the dark side of mental illness.