Bibliograph

Leaving Breezy street, a memoir, Brenda Myers-Powell, with April Reynolds

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Leaving Breezy street, a memoir, Brenda Myers-Powell, with April Reynolds

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Leaving Breezy street

Oclc number

1182021249

Responsibility statement

Brenda Myers-Powell, with April Reynolds

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

"What did Brenda Myers-Powell want? When she turned to prostitution at the age of fifteen, she wanted to support her two baby daughters and have a little money for herself. She was pretty and funny as hell, and although she called herself "Breezy," she was also tough--a survivor in every sense of the word. Over the next twenty-five years, she would move across the country, finding new pimps, parties, drugs, and endless, profound heartache. And she would begin to want something else, something huge: a life of dignity, self-acceptance, and love. Astonishingly, she managed to find the strength to break from an unsparing world and save not only herself but also future Breezys. We have no say into which worlds we are born. But sometimes we can find a way out." -- inside front jacket flap

Target audience

adult

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