Authors: Lisa Lennox
Crackhead
Lisa Lennox's debut novel transports us to the heart of the crack eraâthe South Bronx, New York, 1989.
In the late â80s and early â90s, the crack epidemic swept through inner-city communities like the plague. Mothers abandoned their children and took to the street for a hit. Fathers sold everything they owned to get a taste. The crackhead was rampant. Some neighborhoods were never the same.
Enter Laci Johnson, a privileged, smart, beautiful teenage girl from across town, who teams up with the South Bronx Bitchesâan infamous girl group known for chasing men and money. When the SBB becomes envious of Laci, they devise a plan to destroy her life.
Finding love in the most unexpected of places, Laci turns to a local drug dealer to help save her and heal the wounds of her new addiction.
Lisa Lennox is the pseudonym for
a bestselling author.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2004 by Triple Crown Publications. Compilation and Introduction copyright © 2004 by Triple Crown Publications.
Originally published in 2004 by Triple Crown Publications.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lennox, Lisa.
    Crackhead : a novel / Lisa Lennox.â1st Atria Books trade paperback ed.
          p. cm.
1. Drug addictsâFiction. 2. Young womenâFiction. 3. African
American womenâFiction. 4. Bronx (New York, NY)âFiction.      Â
5. Urban fiction. I. Title.
PS3612.E5496C7 2012
813'.6âdc23Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2011035095
ISBN: 978-1-4516-6173-6 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-4516-6174-3 (ebook)
This book goes out to all those addicted to crack cocaineâ with God all things are possible.
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Chapter 3: God Bless the Child
Chapter 16: That's what Friends are for
Chapter 18: She's gotta have it
Chapter 19: Thinking of a Master Plan
Chapter 20: Make it Last Forever
Chapter 21: Too Little, Too Late
Chapter 24: Unfinished Business
Chapter 25: What you won't do for Love
STUDIES SHOW THAT
animals addicted to cocaine preferred the drug to food even when it meant possible starvation, and many users of its second cousin, crack, report being hooked after only the first use. This horrible addiction is three-fold: psychological, physical, and emotional.
The College of Communication, Boston University, September 1989