Good Reads: DUPPY: Ya Reap What’Cha Sow

For all the bookworms and literature heads out there, at a time like this where people are quarantined indoors for all hours throughout a day, why not grab a good book to read and get into a good tale or two. For 5 years, since it’s release, word on the streets is that this book tells a really good tale about a man named D’wayne “Baby Al” Carter whose moving on with his life. After a life of tragedy and violence, things swarm up and pop up into his life as he tries his hardest to stay focused on a clear future and a good life. There’s someone or something lurking around him that’s constantly on his back, following him, poppin’ up in his life. Is this his way of facing the truth?? Is this his only way to pay his debt back to society?? He’s finally drug free after dealing with the death of his grandfather, he has a new apartment on the west side of the Bronx, a new job with the Transit Authority, a relationship kept on the down low with a sexy woman named Nicole, whose his counselor, his tight friendship with Patrick Livingston that’s better and stronger than ever, and most of all his leftover insurance money handed to him from the death of his grandfather. Even with all of these great things happening to him, there’s still that thing that keeps coming back to show up over and over again. A sign from the past. Something still needs to be resolved. Can’t run or hide forever. As the famous saying goes, what goes around, comes around! Do unto others as they do unto you, because the conscience can kill! A recent killer story that will have you at the edge of your seat and keep you entertained, written by the wordsmith himself Mr. Ronald Haynie. A veteran of the United States Regular Army & US Army Reserve and former student of Marymount Manhattan College with a major in English with a minor in Theatre Arts. Hayne is the first to perform the “I Have a Dream” speech, famously known by the late great Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Spanish by memory completely. This particular novel is his first ever published novel. Check this one out! 

Written by Jalen Hemphill

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