Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Urban & Street Lit

"Broken Promises" is a stage play based on the main characters from the novel "Breaking the Chain" written by Frankie Berry Wise.

It centers on the Jackson family who are poor mulattoes struggling through many obstacles such as poverty, homosexuality, molestation, and murder.

The main matriarch, Sarah Jackson, was abandoned by her white mother and given to a black family that abused her. Around the age of eleven, she was again ushered off to live with an older white man who fathered her four children--John, Cleo, Lilly, and Rose.

Sarah is determined for her family to...

In Steve Karas' debut collection, an unemployed autoworker finds himself at an elite seminar for aspiring Santa Clauses; an IT specialist eagerly awaits the Mayan apocalypse in his parents' basement as his father descends into dementia. Through fourteen curiously ambivalent studies, Karas methodically examines and reconfigures the core archetypes--dot-com entrepreneurs, hard-striving immigrants, obsessive diner owners--that haunt and dominate the American psyche. Their narratives, set against a dizzying panorama that stretches from the ruins of post-2008 Detroit to the desperate paradise...

"Lo sai, vero, che quando due persone si amano profondamente non hanno bisogno di parlare per potersi sentire..."

"Un mistero, era racchiuso nei versi che una mano aveva scritto per amore, e nelle parole che li precedevano..."

"Forse proprio quel foglio, che io stavo toccando, ci avrebbe uniti. Cosi scrivevo. E mentre scrivevo, la mia anima volava nella luce radiosa della felicita. Tutte le brutture del mondo, le sue ingiustizie e le disparita non esistevano piu. La miseria, le sofferenze, non contavano piu niente ormai..."

Gabriel era arrivato in...

She has caught the eye of twenty-two-year-old Rome, a dope boy who quickly makes a name for himself in the Loo. One uneventful night, their worlds collide when Jewels is caught with a violent and deranged client, while Rome is laying low at the same hotel because of a drug beef. After that evening, life for Jewels and Rome will never be the same.

Together, they climb to the...

'A fast-paced and gritty read.' --The Daily Mail

'An impressive feat' --Publishers Weekly

'This is a superb debut... gritty, disturbing and pacy. It opens with thrilling intensity and never lets up.' --Alex Lake, author of After Anna

Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face.

Unknowingly drawn into a war against his own pupils, Patrick's patience finally snaps as he finds himself the number one target with the boy the school just can't seem to...