Hood Rat: A Novel

K'wan

Oct 2006 · Hood Rat Book 1 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

National bestselling author K’wan presents a story of four women fighting to survive in the urban jungle.

Yoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men’s hearts as well as their pockets. She learns the hard way that all that glitters isn’t gold.

Billy, a former high school basketball star, has been looking for love. Then she meets someone new and her whole world is turned upside down and she will never be the same.

Reese is an around-the-way chick, trying to keep up with the Joneses. There’s a revolving door on her bedroom as she tries to find the love she always felt was missing. Her promiscuity leaves her pregnant from a one-night stand and Reese is faced with the task of breaking an age-old cycle, passed down from mother to daughter in her family, and standing on her own.

Rhonda is twenty-something with three kids, by three men, and riding the system all the way to the bank. To her, work is a dirty word; between the multiple checks she gets from the government, and the games she plays with men, she’s living the life of a ghetto superstar. The game soon turns ugly when one of her “sponsors” snaps and decides to get some payback.

Harlem has never seen four friends as scandalous as these. The neighborhood will never be the same again.

Ratings and reviews

From the moment i purchased this book I could not put it down. The first page has you wanting to read more. The author is a very talented writers. Even though there was a few misspelled words you can easily figure out what it was supposed to be.. I love this book from the beginning to the end. Keep up the good work. This book Definitely made my top 10 urban novels

I personally could not put the book down. To make since of all the people in the book you have to follow this book with still hood and eve, all are bad a**! Hats off kwan, I loved them.

one of the best books i have read . it actually depicts some of the African American women and men struggles of everyday life . favorite character billy , we are so much alike . keep it up k'wan ! great book <3

About the author

K'WAN is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Welfare Wifeys, Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, and others. He wrote his first novel, Gangsta, as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an Essence bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, and on MTV and BET. Besides an author, K'wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O. of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.