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Finalist for an NAACP Symbol Award for Exceptional Literature

Finalist for a 2018 Southern Ebook Prize for Biography and History

“An absolute should-learn” – Shondaland

“[Rabbit] tells the way it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York Times

“I do know numerous other people suppose they recognise what it’s love to develop up within the hood. Like possibly they watched a few seasons of The Cord and they were given the shit all discovered. However TV doesn’t inform the entire tale.” – Ms. Pat

They known as her Rabbit.

Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) used to be born and raised in Atlanta on the peak of the crack epidemic. One in every of 5 youngsters, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get Through on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat used to be taught to roll drunks for cash. At twelve, she used to be focused for intercourse Through a person 8 years her senior. Through 13, she used to be pregnant. Through fifteen, Pat used to be a mother of 2.

Alone at 16, Pat used to be made up our minds to make a greater lifestyles for her youngsters. However without a task talents and an 8th-grade training, her choices have been restricted. She discovered briefly that hustling and humor have been the one gear she needed to live to tell the tale. Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and surprising humor. With knowledge and humor, Pat provides us a unprecedented glimpse of what it’s in reality love to be a black mother in The us.