Life's Pains Destiny's Gain
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Lakishia Smith Publishing
Published: 2005, 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore, Maryland
Number of pages: 230
Description: Ieesha McFadden, from Westport Projects, located in Baltimore, Maryland has already proven to the world that it's not where you're from it's where you plan to go; growing up in one of B-more's most debilitated neighborhoods that holds very little hope of survival or success, this young heroine becomes a very triumphant novelist. Ieesha's all grown up now, but does she finally possess the ability to make grown up decisions? 

Born and raised in the community of Flatbush located in Brooklyn, New York; young, beautiful, and yet quite fragile, Jasmine aka Cinnamon, is the perfect definition of the slogan hard knock life. From the ghastly relationship with her estranged mother, to the disappearance of her dead beat baby-daddy, this young casualty faces the unthinkable and is sentenced to do hella time at the Rikers Island Prison for Women. 

Both ladies meet up on the inside and struggle to survive the rough, tough, grounds of Rikers. Will they survive? This page turner is full of drama, emotion, chaotic twist and most importantly life's lesson.
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