Top Girl

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However, it was also enlightening and she spoke of her personal choice to be working in a gang dealing in drugs and there had actually been some fond memories for her which I found so interesting. This is the true-life account of Danielle Marin, "a smart grammar school student turned county line drug dealer. I do enjoy memoirs and am very interested in books such as this one, and I was glad that this did not disappoint. It is a twenty first century cautionary tale told with grit, authenticity and a brutal sense of self awareness that honestly humbled me when I read it.

Red flags abound to her, now, as an adult and as a parent, but, as a child, those you turn to for advice, or those who could have, and should have seen warning signs of grooming, abuse, sexual assault and violence encroaching on this young, very young, girl and acted accordingly. and tried to engage with social services, but if she did do anything like this she didn’t mention it in the book.They aren’t always the people you are warned about, the ones in cars who want you to see their puppies or offering you a ride home ‘because your mother sent me’.

We have , in effect, been ghettoised and isolated to areas which others-read middles class people and above-see as 'no go' places to visit.She has this boyfriend with stature in the local community, and because she is running with them she is in a gang before she even knows it, and, in gang rivalries whether she likes it or not.