Lawton Finest 1 - Lawtons

Before you know the girl, you have to know the town. 5/80 Lawton Ok. Folks who are from there call it the Shady 5-80, not cute, true. Deals shady. Dudes shady. Church mothers with a side hustle in the trunk. Kids learn to watch the door. Elders keep their purse in their laps. This is a book of a life documentary: from playground slide at 3 to flip -flops in the snow at sixteen. Mama Grandma. Choir jail the people who loved her, and the one preyed on her fireworks funerals hunger after grandma is gone Texas motel rooms cookouts where love music and danger share the same plate she climbs out herself. Told in Mz Feen-ha's unfiltered voice, every chapter comes 2 ways- her word-for-word telling and a cleaned version side by side because her personality is the point. No tidy triumph poster. No soft inspiration. Just the truth of how a black girl becomes who she is when the town doesn't make it easy. Lawton's Finest. Becoming Mz Feen-Ha not because the 5/80 made it easy .Because it didn't, and Im still on Go!