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02255aam a2200421 i 4500 001 EA0C9FDEE46811EB991CA80630ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210714010121 008 201007t20212021nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 1645562050 020 $a 9781645562054 035 $a (OCoLC)1199057111 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IG$ $d OCLCO $d IH9 $d OCLCO $d ILC $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 050 4 $a PS3616.I888 $b W47 2021 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Pittman, Raynesha, $e author. 245 10 $a West Coast / $c Raynesha Pittman. 246 3 $a Carl Weber's kingpins : $b west coast 264 1 $a Farmingdale, NY : $b Urban Books, $c [2021] 300 $a 280 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Carl Weber's kingpins 520 $a Perhaps Temper's longing to escape [from the West Coast] is a result of being raised on a road less traveled in an area of South Central Los Angeles, where tourism is obsolete and gang banging and dope slanging reign supreme. Or maybe it's because of the widespread enigma of 'the only way out the hood is over a thirty-foot wall.' If this hood proverb is true, then being born half-black and half-Asian should've given her a ten-foot ladder as a head start"--Publisher marketing. 520 $a For Temper Chey, the West Coast is a prison and she's dying to be freed. Her part of South Central Los Angeles is an area where tourism is obsolete and gang banging and dope slanging reign supreme. After a brief escapade with one of the most infamous Crip kingpins force her to twist, toss, and burn her exit plans? Or will the chaos be the spark that provides a ride to freedom? -- adapted from back cover 650 0 $a Racially mixed women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Street life $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Los Angeles (Calif.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Urban fiction. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Carl Weber's kingpins. 941 $a 5 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314022807.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023525.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230221010512.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210803010818.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210714010657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA0C9FDEE46811EB991CA80630ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search