

Hood Rat
Author: K’wan
Series: Hood Rat Novels #1
Narrator: Cary Hite
Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Urban Audiobooks
Published: 06/07/2016
Categories: Fiction, Urban, African American & Black Fiction
Author: K’wan
Series: Hood Rat Novels #1
Narrator: Cary Hite
Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Urban Audiobooks
Published: 06/07/2016
Categories: Fiction, Urban, African American & Black Fiction
K'WAN is the #1 Essence bestselling author of Welfare Wifeys, Section 8, Gutter, Still Hood, Hood Rat, and others. He wrote his first novel, Gangsta, as a therapeutic release, and it went on to become an Essence bestseller and a part of urban-lit history. In 2008 he received the Black Author of the Year Award from Black Press Radio. He has been featured in Time, KING, The New York Press, and on MTV and BET. Besides an author, K’wan is also a motivational speaker, a mentor to at-risk children and the C.E.O of Black Dawn, Inc. He lives in New Jersey.
Cary Hite has performed in several theaters across the country as a cast member in the longest-running African American play in history, The Diary of Black Men. He also appeared in Edward II, Fences, Macbeth, Good Boys, Side Effects May Vary, and the indie feature The City Is Mine. He has voiced several projects for AudibleKids, including Souls Look Back in Wonder, From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, and Papa, Do You Love Me?
Ok its hard to rate this book because I have so many emotions about this book. I gave it three stars because I was soooooo intrigued by the lifestyle that is partially familiar to me. I've never been "hood" but I grew up in those same kind of neighborhoods. I loved that it was fast-paced. Funny it m......more
Introspection So, HOOD RAT has been sitting on my shelf for years now, taunting me as I walk past. I ain’t no punk and on a mission to put a hurting on my ‘To Be Read Pile,’ I cracked it open. I struggled through chapter one before kindly putting it back down. Beyond tired of these hood ratabulous b......more
Hood Rat follows the lives of four attractive women as they navigate through a summer in Harlem. First, there's Yoshi - a go-getter stripper who knows how to hustle for her money. Then we have Billy, who is trying to heal her broken heart after losing her love in a tragic incident. Reese is another w......more
Another good read by K'wan. Not as good as Hoodlum in my opinion, but a good one nonetheless. This book presented more so like a hood movie than an urban fiction book. There were a lot of characters that were all interconnected. I usually don't like that many characters in a book when there's no dist......more
“Electric prose, which is imbued with profane, comic lyricism.” Publishers Weekly