Crooked

Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects, no guidance.
Forced to return to her mother's apartment in Marin County and take a job houling portable toilets, Mel finds herself drinking too much and hanging out with her old gang again. Haunted by glimpses of her own harrowing girlhood and of the mysterious circumstances that put her in prison in the first place, she slowly, bravely begins to forge a potential path toward redemption and escape.

Author: Louisa Luna
Publisher: MTV Books
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 7.06h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780743439954

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2002 pg. 282
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2002 pg. 51
Kliatt 09/01/2002 pg. 20

About the Author
Luna, Louisa: - Louisa Luna is the author of Brave New Girl and Crooked. She lives in New York City.