Title: The coldest winter ever
First published: 2000
Description: A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller
“50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.

I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn't want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top.
Subjects: Inner cities, African American women, Fiction, Fiction, urban, African americans, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Urban fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2021-03-21, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, urban & street lit, Drug abuse, Social aspects, 1000blackgirlbooks, Drug traffic
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York, New York (State), N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York