Asale Angel-Ajani
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
Author
Language
English
Description
“Strange Trade” tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss.
A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison-and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal...