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Busted: A Memoir of Teenage Years
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From author Phianna Rekab comes her deeply personal memoir of her teenage years, Busted. Ugly pain and hardship meets good humor as she details her personal story of migrating from the Caribbean and growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1980s. Faced with the scourge of rampant sex, drugs, alcohol and other abuses she finds a way out of her poor neighborhood in search of her dream: becoming American.
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