Title: A hot mess
Description: "When Alecia 'Joy' Middleson meets Minke, a young hustler from Brooklyn, he quickly becomes her world ... By the age of eighteen, Alecia is married and has two children by Minke. Their life is like a fairytale -- until Minke discovers that he's been deceived by his wife and leaves her and his children with only the clothes on their backs."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: African Americans, Fiction, Fiction, urban, African americans, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, urban & street lit