Felicia Pearson's Grace After Midnight: A Review by Brianna edited by Ms. Hernandez!

*This review features a book not available in the Longfellow Library, but nonetheless enjoyed by a Longfellow student!*

To begin, it starts of where she is very young.  She is about 9 in the memoir.   It never reveals her real age so we have to base it off from the information given.  When she was born she was born a miracle baby which means that her mom was on crack when she was in her mom's womb.  She was put into the foster care system so, ever since she was young she had a tough start.  One day her mom supposedly changed and stopped taking crack and she was allowed to visit her mom again.  To Felicia this is one of her biggest mistakes because when she got there her biological mom told her to strip down and to go lock herself in the closet.  When this happened her social worker found her there crying for her life.

Once she went through that she had another struggle coming to her.  She didn't know her sexuality and she had to do some “experimenting” and found out that she was a lesbian.  One day there was a parade and she decided to go and because she was African American, this one girl came swinging at her with a bat and she had a gun in her back pocket.  Felicia decided to pull it out and shoot the girl in self defense.  Once she realized what she did she needed some help, so she asked her favorite uncle and eventually there was nothing he could do in the end so she had to go to jail.  She found her girlfriend in jail. She started going out with somebody that worked in the jail and broke up with her later.  Her uncle dies and she is very depressed.  Once she got out she started changing, making the right decisions and changing [her life] so it's very positive.  It was to hard for her and she couldn't do it so she changed back to the person she was.  She turned back into a drug dealer and the top pf the streets.  Right then the memoir ends. 

One thing I liked about this book was the fact that she realized what she was doing wrong and she changed for a while, but she did quit the bad things she was doing.  You may like this book if you enjoy exhilarating pieces of writing.  [This is a book] that makes you question what's going to happen next?