Hoop Dreams Deflated - Yani
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With a crack-whore for a mother, it's no wonder that life for Davion and his younger sister Janaya, was everything but a crystal stair. Left in a dirty house by themselves with only the roaches to look after them as their tummies rumbled, the two anxiously await their mother to return with food for them to eat. Seeing LeBron James play in one of his first NBA games awakened Davion's passion for the sport, but hearing his baby sister's tearful pleas for something to eat makes him vow to become a super star athlete, so he and his sister would never again see days like the ones they were…mehr

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With a crack-whore for a mother, it's no wonder that life for Davion and his younger sister Janaya, was everything but a crystal stair. Left in a dirty house by themselves with only the roaches to look after them as their tummies rumbled, the two anxiously await their mother to return with food for them to eat. Seeing LeBron James play in one of his first NBA games awakened Davion's passion for the sport, but hearing his baby sister's tearful pleas for something to eat makes him vow to become a super star athlete, so he and his sister would never again see days like the ones they were currently living. While salvaging slices of bread from a moldy loaf in the refrigerator, the two manage to make jelly sandwiches, only for the electric to be turned off. They are now alone in the dark, cold and hungry. A phone call placed to their father leads to their rescue and Davion and Janaya are placed in his custody. His mother's dope fiend habits wreak havoc in his young life, causing him to get into countless fights while losing all respect for the woman he now only refers to as Joselyn. But a heated confrontation between the two leads to a startling revelation that it was his father who turned Joselyn onto coke and created her habit that ultimately led to her overdose, with Janaya and Davion being the ones to find her. The respect, love and admiration Davion once had for the man he affectionately referred to as Pops, quickly diminishes after that dreadful day, and tragedy seems to make itself right at home in their lives. Holding on to his hoop dreams, Davion works hard at perfecting his craft with his sister following in his footsteps. But with tragedy striking around them constantly, the dream begins to slowly slip from his grip. Davion soon learns that everyone is not who they seem as he suspects his step-mother played a part in a murder that nearly destroys the family. Through Davion's eyes, he tells his story down to the final seconds of his fourth quarter when it's too late for him to realize that his suspicions were misplaced… as was his trust.
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Yani is an Amazon Best Selling Author of five 5 star novels hailing from the North Philly and Germantown sections of Philadelphia. She's been in the top 20 of African American Fiction-Urban Life for her A Thug's Redemption series and debuted at number 12 in Romance and Erotica for Obsessive Intimacies. Yani has a unique way of bringing stories to life, giving her readers the feeling that they are watching a movie with every page that is turned. Her characters are real, raw and easy to relate to while her story lines are original, and havie the ability to evoke emotions in the readers from start to finish. She has been featured in Yo! Raps magazine for A Thug's Redemption and was also a featured author at the 2013 Houston Black Book festival.Yani first got her start writing for her school paper at University City. Her popular poems granted her an invitation to the Tri-State area's number 1 Hip-Hop and R&B radio station, where she recited one of her most memorable pieces, "Why Tyrone Can't Read". She then moved on to performing at various open mic nights in Philadelphia before landing a publishing deal with Publish America.With the desire to self-publish and develop her own production company, Yani bought back the rights to A Thug's Redemption and re-released it under her own publishing company "Anitbeet Productions". She then followed up with two sequels and penned her first erotic novel in 2014. She is currently in the process of turning A Thug's Redemption into an independent film and working on her sixth novel which will be released Summer of 2016.To learn more about this remarkable author and her incredible body of work, visit theauthoryani.com