by Brenda M. Hampton

Meet the Evens family, three generations living together in a desolate neighborhood in Chicago s crime-ridden Southside. Life has not turned out the way Dorothy Evens, the head of the clan, dreamed it would. Now she returns home from dead-end job every night and seeks comfort in a bottle of vodka to numb the pain. Her children find other ways to deal life in the hood. Danny is on a paper chase, trying to make money and stay alive in spite of threads from a rival dealer. Regina keeps herself busy juggling her children s fathers, all the while dreaming that some day she will find a man to take her away from the hood. Her twin brother, Reginald, seeks fellowship in the church, but his holier-then-thou attitude ignites plenty of arguments of arguments in the household. When their cousin, Anthony, returns home after his sixth stay in prison, he is full of rage. A visit to his son, who s living with a crack-addicted mother, leaves Anthony determined to find a way to insure a brighter future for the child. He devises a plan that will pull the Evens family out of the desperate cycle of poverty they ve been stuck in. What price will he be willing to pay to change the course of this family s future?