Blue, Treasure. A Street Girl Named Desire: a Novel. One World, Ballentine, New York, NY. 2007 ISBN 978-0345493286. 336 pages. Paperback $11.26
Desire is born on the streets on Harlem and is quickly taken away from her drug addicted, prostitute mother. After years of neglect and torment in foster homes she find a loving home. Her talent in the church choir leads to her discovery by a record label executive who promises her everything. In her path to fame Desire faces the same problems that plagued her birth mother, drugs, sex, violence. Can she overcome the brutal realities of the world or will she be another street girl, named Desire?
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