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Crooked
Crooked
Crooked
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Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects, no guidance.
Forced to return to her mother's apartment in Marin County and take a job houling portable toilets, Mel finds herself drinking too much and hanging out with her old gang again. Haunted by glimpses of her own harrowing girlhood and of the mysterious circumstances that put her in prison in the first place, she slowly, bravely begins to forge a potential path toward redemption and escape.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMTV Books
Release dateMay 11, 2010
ISBN9780743446563
Crooked
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Louisa Luna

Louisa Luna is the author of Brave New Girl and Crooked. She lives in New York City.

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