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Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding LiteratureFinalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History"An absolute must-read" - Shondaland"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times "I know a lot of people think they know what it's like to grow up in the hood. Like maybe they watched a couple of seasons of The Wire and they got the shit all figured out. But TV doesn't tell the whole story." - Ms. PatThey called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat was taught to roll drunks for money. At twelve, she was targeted for sex by a man eight years her senior. By thirteen, she was pregnant. By fifteen, Pat was a mother of two. Alone at sixteen, Pat was determined to make a better life for her children. But with no job skills and an eighth-grade education, her options were limited. She learned quickly that hustling and humor were the only tools she had to survive. Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and unexpected humor. With wisdom and humor, Pat gives us a rare glimpse of what it's really like to be a black mom in America.



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Patricia Williams

After retiring from a long and fulfilling career as a dental hygienist, Trish Williams provided full-time care for both of her aging and ailing parents for ten years. During that decade, her parents faced the challenges of aging with such extraordinary strength and courage, that she began to jot down notes on their lives. The notes grew into stories, and the stories into her poignant memoir, While They're Still Here.

Her book is an honest and humorous revelation of the clashing and healing between a Baby Boomer and her Greatest Generation parents, as the roles of parent and child shift with aging. Interlaced with revelations of her parents' pasts, she faces the struggles and rewards of caregiving with grace and grumbling, as the family learns to accept each other for who they were and who they became.

Trish lives in Olympia, Washington with her spouse, Katy Murray. She'd love to hear from you and can be reached through her author website: www.patriciawilliamsbook.com.



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