The Coldest Winter Ever

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A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel. I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn't want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top.

subjects: Inner cities,  African American women,  Fiction,  Fiction, urban,  African americans, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Urban fiction,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2021-03-21,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, urban & street lit,  Drug abuse,  Social aspects,  1000blackgirlbooks,  Drug traffic

Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  New York,  New York (State),  N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York