Show Stoppah
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Show Stoppah is a brutal green-mile of injustice, walked by two women through domestic abuse, kidnapping, rape, slave trafficking, and contract killings, ending the journey by commandeering a radio station, home to a national show in an effort to share their stories about the atrocities suffered at the hands of two powerful men.
Homeless at sixteen, Kimpa fell in love with aspiring writer Brody Ellis. Needing money, Brody becomes a pimp, and Kimpa sells her body to obtain a piece of the American dream. Isis meets handsome Denairo Ganteeny, who was posing as an F.B.I. agent. After she witnesses Denairo commit murder she realizes the truth—Denairo isn’t F.B.I. but a hit man, and she is now his prisoner.
Show Stoppah is the courageous story of women who survive and escape the harshness of two powerful men. Bound together by heartache, physical abuse, and betrayal, Kimpa and Isis design an elaborate plot for revenge. Armed with automatic weapons, they storm the parking lot of a radio station in the early morning hours, taking over the airwaves to tell their stories of abuse, hoping to inspire and unite battered women across the nation. And even though the police have sealed off the building and large crowds have gathered outside the station, these two women will only surrender once they share their stories. In Show Stoppah, readers will see what happens when two women are pushed to the limits of frustration, and exactly what they’re prepared to do to earn respect.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Slater, the author of two self-published novels (Run with the Pack and Blue-Collar Diary), makes his professional debut with a provocative if somewhat far-fetched tale of revenge. At Detroit's Woman's First Shelter, two battered African-American women, Kimpa Peoples and Isis, listen in fury to a radio shock jock, Mindspeak the Truth, as he hosts a national show on the topic of "women who kill their abusive lovers." The sistahs hijack the show the next day, to tell the world about their experiences as abuse victims. Kimpa leads the way, sharing her seedy history with her former pimp, Brody Ellis, now a bestselling urban fiction author and screenwriter with a dark secret behind his success. Next, Isis relates her harrowing life after being kidnapped by sexy but terrifying Denairo Ganteeny, who claims to be an FBI agent but is really a mob hit man. Quicksilver pacing and super characterizations more than compensate for the fairy tale denouement.