Motown and Didi: A Love Story (Laurel-Leaf contemporary fiction) - Softcover

Didi's struggle to hold her family together--in the face of her mother's growing insanity and her brother Tony's heroin addiction--becomes a fight for her life as she tangles with a Harlem pusher, until Motown joins her battle and they fall in love

in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, working his muscles every night, keeping strong, surviving. Didi lives in her cool dream bubble, untouched by the Harlem heat that beats down on her brother until only drugs can soothe him. Didi escapes, without needles, in her tidy plans and stainless visions, etchings of ivycovered colleges where her true life will begin. Didi can survive inside her own safe mind, until Motown steps into her real world and makes it bearable. Together they can stand the often brutal present. What about the future?