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Abena Dickerson starts out her life as a normal, bright individual. With the sudden onset of clinical depression as a young teen, her life begins to spiral in the opposite direction. She finally gets back on track, after two pregnancies, loss of friends, family interventions, and soul searching.
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Plot & Themes

Kids growing up/acting up?    -   Yes Kids:    -   trouble in college    -   trouble in high school    -   seducing/being seduced    -   rebelling against parent's expectations    -   first sexual experience    -   alienated from society job/profession:    -   clerk Job/profession/poverty story    -   Yes Kind of living:    -   general poverty story Family, hate    -   Yes The difficult family member    -   expects to be obeyed in all things    -   disapproves of life choices    -   disapproves of personality

Subject of Biography

Gender    -   Female Profession/status:    -   student Ethnicity    -   Black Nationality    -   American

Setting

United States    -   Yes Century:    -   1980's-Present

Writing Style

Book makes you feel?    -   in awe Graphic sex in book?    -   Yes What kind of sex:    -   impregnation/reproduction How much dialogue in bio?    -   significantly more descript than dialog

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