Bad Girlz: A Novel Shannon Holmes, Malaika Adero (Editor) ISBN: 074348620X Format: Paperback, 224pp Pub. Date: October 2003 Publisher: Atria Books BBP Sales Rank: 8,104 List Price: $15.00 Sale price: $10.50
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FROM THE PUBLISHER

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. 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.