The Coldest Winter Ever

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Deon, 12/29/2004    10/10
This book opened my eyes to what goes on in the world. I dont usually read so when i couldnt put this book down my mum knew it got me hooked. This book made and laugh and brought me close to tears. Through-out the book i kept having to remind myself on how old WINTER was. This young girl was living the life of a grown adult i.e. partys, drugs, sex etc. This book is a must young or old you just some how connect with WINTER and her struggle.
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Nequa, 12/15/2004    100
I think this book was wonderful. My favorite part of the book was when they lost everything because it was a good chance for Winter to learn to stop depending on her father for everthing. That was a damn good lesson for her.
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About Sister Souljah

Sister Soujah (Lisa Williamson) was born in 1964 in the Bronx, New York. Her mother, who lived on and off the welfare system for approximately 15 years, raised her. She lived in government subsidized housing below the poverty line, a cycle of poverty from which she later broke out. As a political activist, Sister Souljah is angered by the condition of African American people throughout the entire world. Sister Souljah is also a humanitarian. In Zimbabwe she worked at a medical center and also visited Mozambiquan refugee camps and traveled throughout the South African region. Sister Souljah as a hip-hop artist incorporated her views of black injustices in her music. In her songs and writing, she reflects how the effects of slavery still plague the African-American. It is like a wound that never heals and an image that can never be forgotten. Sister Souljah has decided to go against the majority and dedicate her life to seeking a solution to these problems.

Selected Works by Sister Souljah

• The Coldest Winter Ever
• No Disrespect

From Kirkus Reviews

Debut novel by hip-hop rap artist Sister Souljah, whose No Disrespect (1994), which mixes sexual history with political diatribe, is popular in schools country-wide. In its way, this is a tour de force of black English and underworld slang, as finely tuned to its heroine's voice as Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The subject matter, though, has a certain flashiness, like a black Godfather family saga, and the heroine's eventual fall develops only glancingly from her character. Born to a 14-year-old mother during one of New York's worst snowstorms, Winter Santiaga is the teenaged daughter of Ricky Santiaga, Brooklyn's top drug dealer, who lives like an Arab prince and treats his wife and four daughters like a queen and her princesses. Winter lost her virginity at 12 and now focuses unwaveringly on varieties of adolescent self-indulgence: sex and sugar-daddies, clothes, and getting her own way. She uses school only as a stepping-stone for getting out of the house-after all, nobody's paying her to go there. But if there's no money in it, why go? Meanwhile, Daddy decides it's time to move out of Brooklyn to truly fancy digs on Long Island, though this places him in the discomfiting position of not being absolutely hands-on with his dealers; and sure enough the rise of some young Turks leads to his arrest. Then he does something really stupid: he murders his wife's two weak brothers in jail with him on Riker's Island and gets two consecutive life sentences. Winter's then on her own, especially with Bullet, who may have replaced her dad as top hood, though when she selfishly fails to help her pregnant buddy Simone, there's worse-much worse-to come. Thinnessaside: riveting stuff, with language so frank it curls your hair.