Darnella Ford

Choke

by Darnella Ford

For Vanessa, a low-income housing complex in the middle of the desert in El Mirage, Arizona, represents all that is wrong with her life. Her neighbors get it on all night long, she sees an abusive husband kill...

Crave

by Darnella Ford

Dear Jesus,

Gerry didn't work out because Gerry didn't work. And after spending one night in complete darkness because "pretty didn't pay the light bill," Gerry and I broke up and are no longer speaking.

Marshall...

Rising

by Darnella Ford

She should have been able to trust him.... "Night sweats were my dance, especially in the Huston home. They were a continuation of the visions I had experienced in Dorchester, only here, they were much more...

Finding Me

by Darnella Ford

"A Southern coming-of-age. . ..Ford's Shreveport is an unforgiving place-swampy, seductive and judgmental-that's reflected in her blunt but intoxicating prose." -Publishers Weekly

Eleven-year-old Blaze James...