Snow - Softcover

Jasper, Kenji

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601830017 ISBN 13: 9781601830012

Publisher: Vibe Street Lit, 2007

Synopsis

Once a promising young student, Snow, a career criminal one step ahead of both the cops and the competition, must choose between the streets and family when his baby daughter is born, which leads to a final confrontation with his arch enemy Kamau. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenji Jasper is a regular contributor to National Public Radio. His journalism has appeared in Essence®, Vibe, The Source, and many other publications. He is also the author of The House on Childress Street, Seeking Salamanca Mitchell, Dakota Grand, and Dark. A native of Washington, D.C. and a graduate of Morehouse College, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

From Publishers Weekly:

Nicknamed for his snowflake-shaped birthmark, the title character of Jasper's taut, brutal inner-city character study is trying hard to preserve a shred of purity and decency, but the mean streets of Washington, D.C., make it a tough proposition. A murdering thief for hire, Snow manages to keep just out of reach of the cops, and of his archrival Kamau. Luscious Adele and baby Kayi are what he comes home to, and what he wants to quit for, if he can manage both to make a big enough score, and to get out of the business cleanly. Authentic and cinematically convincing details (a poker game puts "local weed and weight money, high four-figure money, in the middle") underpin Snow's inner struggle as, in flashback, he tells the story of his street education; they help move the latest from Jasper (Dakota Grand) beyond casual urban nihilism. But it's Snow's voice—at once sardonic, tough, tender and full of a bravado that can't quite hide the cold fear underneath—that propels the novel forward. (Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vibe Street Lit
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1601830017
• ISBN 13: 9781601830012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 147