Too Beautiful for Words Book

Peaches was a good high shcool girl who thought she wanted to be a beautician—until she met Jesus the pimp, who turned her out. She became one of his top moneymakers until Jesus beat her to death—inf ront of their eight-year-old son Jason. With that kind of baggage, Jason has a hard row to hoe. Yet, when he becomes a father himself, Jason searches out Jesus in order to learn the family business. Then he meets Chinaka, a former Black Panther, whose questions force him to confront not only his past, but also his—and his son's—present and future.

Monique Morris's prose captures with exquisite honesty both the brutality of life on the streets and the humanity of the people who inhabit them. Too Beautiful for Words marks the debut of a wholly original talent.