Description: After leaving home at the age of sixteen, Jada partied hard with the neighborhood kingpin, but his love couldn't save her from drugs. Jada goes from crack addict and prostitute to survivor and back again before finding the strength to live for herself.
Brief description:
Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.
Review Quotes:
"Brown's epic explores New York's ghettos of the 1980s and '90s, following two characters caught up in the crack epidemic...Brown's characters are sympathetically drawn, and the Goodfellas-like take on the gangster life is eye-opening."
-- "Publishers Weekly"