80 proof lives
Subtitle: a novel
By: Felicia S.W. Thomas
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780981584775
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: African American teenage girls; Teenage girls; Fiction
Other titles: Eighty proof lives
Description: "Fifteen-year-old Fla Frye feels lonely, unloved, and destined to go nowhere after graduation. To pay off her mother's beer tab, she is forced to clean house for the local madam and bootleg queen, Miss Lipstick, during the summer of 1976. By the end of that fateful summer, will Fla plunge into the life of an alcoholic or will she discover what real love and friendship are all about"--P. [4] of cover.