Winter never sees her downfall until the very end. The book mainly discusses her problems with spending money on ridiculous items and how she never realizes the problem with it. She uses her good looks and her game to manipulate everyone (including her immediate family) into getting what she wants. This mentality brings her to the destructive point in her life.

Winter also sees no problem with spending a few hundred dollars on an outfit and other luxuries.

Winter feels isolated and needs to go back to the ghetto and brag to her friends and complete strangers. They finally move out of the ghetto and into a rich, suburban area. Her father spoils her rotten and her mother feeds into this. She grows up in the ghetto with a father who is a drug kingpin. Throughout the novel, she is constantly trying to 'stay on top'. View moreWinter Santiaga is a spoiled, materialistic, troubled teenager. You will never forget this Winter's tale. Provocative and thoroughly entertaining, this is a daring novel of passion, loss, courage - and of the sometimes terrible tolls exacted from us just to stay alive. Sister Souljah explores a young urban woman's innermost state of mind in a voice as bold as it is bracingly honest. 'The Coldest Winter Ever'marks the debut of a gifted storyteller.

Unwilling to give up her ghetto celebrity status, her friends and her lovers, Winter sets off on a series of wild adventures to reclaim her role as princess of the alleyways.īut when her schemes begin to unravel, Winter is on her own, figuring out a whole new way to survive. But a cold winter wind is about to blow her life in a direction she could never have expected. She manoeuvres skilfully, applying all she has learned to come out on top, no matter how dramatically the scenes change. Winter knows the Brooklyn streets like she knows the curves of her own body. Quick-witted, sexy, business minded and fashionable, Winter knows no restrictions. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. In a stunning first novel, renowned hip-hop artist, writer and activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life with a powerful and utterly unforgettable tale.

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