Finally Jackie Smalls’s life was coming together. A teenaged single mother living in the projects, Jackie finally met Roger, who was loving, committed, and willing to take care of Jackie and her daughter Tamika. It looked like Jackie was going to leave the projects and unhappiness behind. Then Roger loses his job and life slowly begins to unravel…
In “Family Affair,” the reader will encounter life as it is lived daily in the projects, with all its uncertainty, crime and poverty. You will be drawn into Jackie’s struggles, her few successes, her overwhelming defeats. Can Jackie overcome her circumstances and make a good life for herself and her children? Or will the projects direct Jackie’s life, and swallow her up as they swallowed so many others?

Sixteen-year-old Jackie Smalls’s father has just walked out on his family, leaving Jackie and five other siblings to be raised by their single mother. In addition, Jackie has just found out that she is pregnant and her baby daddy won’t claim the unborn child as his.

What is Jackie to do with no father of her own, no father for her child, and an overburdened mother? This is the story of A Compton Chick.

Blood Bond
By Alex Tyson
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