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“Cake”
By D
ç 2008, The Armory/Akashic Books
$14.95 = 139 pages
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
Whom do you trust?
It’s an easy question, the answer of which is probably your Mama, family, maybe a friend or two.
But what if you had little-or-no family and you knew nobody in your new hometown? Whom do you trust?
In the new book “Cake” by D, you can’t trust anyone. Seems like they’re all out to end your life.
It’s been six months, but you can’t stop thinking about it. You never wanted to kill that girl in Brooklyn, but you had to. It was kill or be killed, for sure, and when it was done, you split. You wished you could’ve stopped to see if your boys, Will and Chief, were OK, but you had to go. Your life depended on it.
Long ago, somebody in social services handed you a folder and you discovered you had a third cousin in Atlanta, so you’re squatting on his sofa for now. You g
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