Book Description | """Quick and entertaining, K'wan's latest captures a small slice of modern urban life with a great degree of credibility and finds in Animal his most conflicted, memorable, and likable character yet."" -Publisher's Weekly on Section 8
""K'wan once again comes through with a gritty and violent yarn that raises the street-lit bar."" -Library Journal on Section 8
""A street-lit version of The Godfather . Hoodlum does what literature should do. It shows us that writing really matters."" -Library Journal on Hoodlum
""The big draw here is the electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism."" -Publishers Weekly on Hood Rat" |
About the Author | K'WAN is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, and others. He wrote his first novel, Gangsta, as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an Essence bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, and on MTV and BET. Besides an author, K'wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O. of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey. |