Damaged

Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her foster parents, she turns to the one person she knows she can trust--her boyfriend Chu, a mid-level drug dealer. But when life finally starts looking up for Camille, Chu is brutally murdered. Again feeling abandoned and helpless, and refusing to return to the system, Camille finds herself living with a stable of women in a tiny run-down apartment building in Washington, D.C., working for Nut, a deranged pimp. Fed up with her life, Camille is forced to right her wrongs, and slowly learns that her past does not necessarily determine her future.

Author: Kia Dupree
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 01/26/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780446547758
Award: Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) - Honorable Mention

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2009 pg. 37
Multicultural Review 12/01/2010 pg. 48

About the Author
Kia DuPree, a native of Washington, D.C., holds a B.A. in Mass Media Arts from Hampton University, as well as an M.A. in English from Old Dominion University. She received a Professional Studies Publishing Certificate from New York University in 2006. She is currently teaching middle school and lives with her husband and son in the DC area.