Bad Girlz
A Novel
Atria Books · Print & ebook · October 28, 2003
The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets.
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- Who it’s for
- A gritty, fast-moving look at survival where money, danger, and exploitation meet.
- Genres
- Black Urban Fiction, Crime Fiction, Black Women's Fiction
- Published
- Atria Books, October 28, 2003
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The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets. The setting this time is the Badlands, one of the toughest and poorest communities in Philadelphia. Bad Girlz takes you into the mysterious and often dangerous lives of young women who turn to the streets and strip clubs as a means of survival.
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These are girls who, along the way, suffer bad breaks and find themselves ripe for exploitation by men and women who pretend to be their saviors. Tender and Goldie were taken under wing by Kat, a veteran stripper, who enjoyed the life and the risks she had to take to stay in the mix of the sex trade. Both of these young and beautiful girls had ended up in dire straits and in need of Kat's help in different ways, but ultimately for the same reasons: They lacked the love and support that most of us expect to get at home and in our communities. Where they live, illegal money is often the only money to be made, and the difference between the law and the outlaw is tough to discern. Holmes tells a page-turning story of sex, money, and murder in the name of survival and reveals the many ways that good girls, trying to get by in desperate situations, become Bad Girlz.
Streetwise Tension
A gritty, fast-moving look at survival where money, danger, and exploitation meet.
Come here for
- Streetwise crime fiction shaped by survival and the sex trade
- An edgy, immersive look at young women facing exploitation
Expect
- A tough Philadelphia setting and morally blurred lines
- Sex, money, and murder woven into a story of survival
Where it sits
| Black Urban Fiction | 78% |
|---|---|
| Black Women's Fiction | 39% |
| Crime Fiction | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women's Fiction
- Black Women's Fiction
- Black Erotica
- Black Urban Fiction
- Authors
- Shannon Holmes, Erica Peeples, Urban Audiobooks
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Published
- October 28, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Women's Fiction