by Brenda M. Hampton

South Side takes place within the space of a week and follows the lives of a black family living in a desolate neighborhood on Chicago's crime ridden South Side. Family life in the Evans household can be fraught at the best of times, but especially when you are caught up in a web of crime, sex and injustice. When the matriarch of the clan, Dorothy Evans, literally drinks herself to death, the children are forced to tackle their own futures. Hard lessons and real truths will be revealed in this inspirational novel.