“Nobody asked to be born in this world, but fuck it, once you’re here, there’s no turning back. How does an inner-city girl, born to a teen mom, and drug-dealing dad in the 80’s, navigate through the trials and tribulations of life in Washington, D.C., the nation’s murder capital, without losing her entire mind in the process? Will she become a product of her catastrophic environment, or will she learn to triumph through tragedy and play the cards she was dealt?”
Book Review: Carrying Water and Carrying Loss: Tony Stevens’ The Water Girls
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐(5 Stars)Venice has been written about endlessly, but The Water Girls finds something rare in its canals. Instead of gondoliers and nobles, Tony Stevens turns his attention to the women who carried the city’s water, and in doing so, he gives voice to a world on the edge of disappearance. The story follows Lina, a…
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