Showing results for "Carmen" in African American

Some women fall in love. Carmen learned how to survive it. She wanted the man with power, the life that came with him, the kind of love that looked like protection and felt like possession. And for a moment . . . she had it. But love doesn't always choose you back. Caught between the man she...

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and destructive vices. Set amid the tail end of the crack epidemic and the rise of the opioid crisis, Mama Said evokes Black family life in all its complexity, following JayLynn, along with her cousins Zaria and Angel, as they come of age struggling against their mothers' drug addictions.