I always did right by Amina even though it was sometimes major difficult to
take care of a daughter that I loved with all my heart, but never wanted in the
first place.
China Cup Cameron might miss school or fall asleep in class sometimes, but
she's trying hard to be a good mother to Amina, her two-year-old daughter. When
tragedy befalls the small family, China must quit school and work full-time to
make ends meet. But the only place in town that's willing to hire a
fourteen-year-old high-school dropout is Obsidian Queens, a strip club, and
China is forced to make some difficult and potentially self-destructive
decisions.
Through China's harrowing, emotionally resonant story, for which Lori Aurelia
Williams won the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship while it was
still a work-in-progress, the author of When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune
creates a window into the all-too-real world of a teen mother faced with
unthinkable choices.
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China Cup Cameron, a fourteen-year-old single mother with only her paralyzed
Uncle Simon for support, takes on tremendous personal debt in hopes of a
beautiful funeral after her daughter dies.
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