Hood Rat, Kwan
Hood Rat, Kwan
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Hood Rat

Author: K’wan

Narrator: Cary Hite

Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2016


Synopsis

Hood rat: a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to “get around” in the ‘hoodYoshi is young, fine, and larcenous. She lives her life playing on men’s hearts as well as their pockets. But she learns the hard way that all that glitters isn’t gold.Billy, a former high school basketball star, is at the end of her rope with the opposite sex. To her, all men are dogs, so she secretly seeks comfort in the arms of women—until she meets a man who makes her reevaluate her feelings.Reese is an around-the-way chick trying to keep up with the Joneses. There’s a revolving door on her bedroom as she searches for the love she always felt was missing. When her promiscuity leaves her pregnant after a one-night stand, 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 twentysomething with three kids from three different men, and she’s 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. But the game soon turns ugly when one of her “sponsors” decides to get some payback.Harlem has never seen four friends as scandalous as these. The neighborhood will never be the same again.

About K’wan

K'WAN is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Welfare Wifeys, Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, 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.

About Cary Hite

Cary Hite has performed in several theaters across the country as a cast member in the longest-running African American play in history, The Diary of Black Men. He also appeared in Edward II, Fences, Macbeth, Good Boys, Side Effects May Vary, and the indie feature The City Is Mine. He has voiced several projects for AudibleKids, including Souls Look Back in Wonder, From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, and Papa, Do You Love Me?


Reviews

Goodreads review by kisha on August 11, 2012

Ok its hard to rate this book because I have so many emotions about this book. I gave it three stars because I was soooooo intrigued by the lifestyle that is partially familiar to me. I've never been "hood" but I grew up in those same kind of neighborhoods. I loved that it was fast-paced. Funny it m......more

Goodreads review by Ms.Toni on May 15, 2010

Introspection So, HOOD RAT has been sitting on my shelf for years now, taunting me as I walk past. I ain’t no punk and on a mission to put a hurting on my ‘To Be Read Pile,’ I cracked it open. I struggled through chapter one before kindly putting it back down. Beyond tired of these hood ratabulous b......more

Goodreads review by Demetrius on April 22, 2024

Hood Rat follows the lives of four attractive women as they navigate through a summer in Harlem. First, there's Yoshi - a go-getter stripper who knows how to hustle for her money. Then we have Billy, who is trying to heal her broken heart after losing her love in a tragic incident. Reese is another w......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on February 05, 2021

Another good read by K'wan. Not as good as Hoodlum in my opinion, but a good one nonetheless. This book presented more so like a hood movie than an urban fiction book. There were a lot of characters that were all interconnected. I usually don't like that many characters in a book when there's no dist......more

Goodreads review by Danita on April 06, 2015

I'm re-reading this book 2 refresh my memory b4 I start the rest of the series.......more


Quotes

“Electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism.” Publishers Weekly