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That’s how things go in the ‘hood: It’s a never ending cycle of trouble, and once it grabs you, it won’t let go.
Patricia started life on the lowest rung of society: poor, black, and female. With an alcoholic for a mother and four siblings, she was raised on a steady diet of welfare, food stamps and cigarette smoke. By the age of 13 she had two children, and by the age of 16 she was one of Atlanta’s most successful crack dealers. Growing up in a family that had been stuck in the ghetto for generations, it seemed impossible Patricia would ever escape.
But when she was shot be a rival drug dealer in front her own children, Patricia made the life-changing decision to turn it all around. With a combination of grit, stubbornness, anger and love – and the kindness of others – she fought to break the cycle of poverty for the next generation. Now a stand-up comedian, she lives the maxim that the best healing comes through humour.
Patricia started life on the lowest rung of society: poor, black, and female. With an alcoholic for a mother and four siblings, she was raised on a steady diet of welfare, food stamps and cigarette smoke. By the age of 13 she had two children, and by the age of 16 she was one of Atlanta’s most successful crack dealers. Growing up in a family that had been stuck in the ghetto for generations, it seemed impossible Patricia would ever escape.
But when she was shot be a rival drug dealer in front her own children, Patricia made the life-changing decision to turn it all around. With a combination of grit, stubbornness, anger and love – and the kindness of others – she fought to break the cycle of poverty for the next generation. Now a stand-up comedian, she lives the maxim that the best healing comes through humour.
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Review:
"Like Ms. Pat, I grew up in the hood during the crack epidemic, but I've never read anything like Rabbit. I didn't know a story this sad could make me laugh so hard. That's the comic genius of Ms. Pat!"--Loni Love, co-host of The Real
"Both savagely honest and often genuinely funny, this is the story of how a resilient woman survived a harrowing early life and found unexpected salvation through humor."--Kirkus
"This is, in short, a humdinger of a memoir - mesmerizing"--Buffalo News
"She was able to elevate her personal stories of horror, sadness, violence, insanity into something that people can understand and relate to and see into a world that many of us don't know."
--Marc Maron
"Unforgiving and darkly hilarious."--Washington Post
"Ms. Pat, gives readers insight into what it's really like to be young black woman growing up in America."--TODAY.com
"Rabbit tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor in unexpected places."--New York Times
"Riveting...this is one autobiography that should not be missed."--Huffington Post
"As heartbreaking as it is darkly hilarious, Rabbit will make you wipe away both tears of joy and sorrow...a memoir filled with wit and wisdom...Honest, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny, Williams' book is an absolute must-read."--Shondaland
"Her story is one that dares everyone reading it to dream bigger."--Bust Magazine
Book Description:
"Both savagely honest and often genuinely funny, this is the story of how a resilient woman survived a harrowing early life and found unexpected salvation through humor."--Kirkus
"This is, in short, a humdinger of a memoir - mesmerizing"--Buffalo News
"She was able to elevate her personal stories of horror, sadness, violence, insanity into something that people can understand and relate to and see into a world that many of us don't know."
--Marc Maron
"Unforgiving and darkly hilarious."--Washington Post
"Ms. Pat, gives readers insight into what it's really like to be young black woman growing up in America."--TODAY.com
"Rabbit tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor in unexpected places."--New York Times
"Riveting...this is one autobiography that should not be missed."--Huffington Post
"As heartbreaking as it is darkly hilarious, Rabbit will make you wipe away both tears of joy and sorrow...a memoir filled with wit and wisdom...Honest, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny, Williams' book is an absolute must-read."--Shondaland
"Her story is one that dares everyone reading it to dream bigger."--Bust Magazine
A real-life Precious: one woman's heart-wrenching and inspirational memoir of surviving poverty and gang violence in Atlanta's ghettos.
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- PublisherEbury Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 178503149X
- ISBN 13 9781785031496
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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