Today’s Featured Book of Color is Midnight: A Gangster Love Story. This is the prequel to Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever. In this novel, the reader is introduced to Midnight, Ricky Santiaga’s strong lieutenant that was in the original novel.
Midnight is the son of a wealthy Islamic African family that is attacked. Fleeing with his mother, Midnight ends up in the middle of America’s Brooklyn projects. At the age of seven, he is thrust into the streets of New York to try and support his mother, who, when they were sent to America was pregnant. As he grows older, he finds that not only does he need to protect his mother but his heart as well. Midnight faces the difficult problems that most blacks face as they try to make their way out of the ‘hood.
Sister Souljah is a graduate of Rutgers University and made the transition from being a hip-hop artist to starting the genre of urban fiction with her smash, The Coldest Winter Ever.