Texts from Bennett
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A family story for the twenty-first century, based on the phenomenally popular Texts from Bennett Tumblr blog, this epistolary novel chronicles the year that Bennett and the rest of his freeloading family moved into his cousin Mac's household.
Hardworking Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal has a problem, and its name is Bennett. His wannabe gangsta cousin is seventeen, uses drugs and foul language, claims to be 13 percent black, and swears he speaks "da female language." (Strangely that last one sort of seems true.)
But as different as they are, when Bennett and his mom lose their home, Mac’s got their backs. They’re family after all. Sure, it takes patience to live with the eternally smoked-out Bennett and the pill-popped Aunt Lily, but he can handle it.
You know who can’t? Mac’s very pretty, very WASPy, very uptight girlfriend. So as his once-peaceful household gets completely crazy, Mac learns that wanna-be-Crips are thicker than water, that his little cousin—flawed, irreverent, and basically a Saturday morning cartoon gone horribly wrong—has become his mentor, and that he really has no idea what’s up with girls.
Customer Reviews
One of the best books you will ever read
If he ever puts out another book I would be happy love this guy.
Great first stab at writing a novel
I’ve followed Mac’s music for quite some time, ever since He slept on the floor of my apartment roughly ten years ago. Reading this book is a great way to gain insight into his unique writing style in his raps, which translates nicely to this piece of literature. Bravo!
Hilarious
What a funny novel. Filled with heart and bravado...Mac Lethal has done it again.