| #1448306 in Books | Northeastern | 2007-05-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.53 x5.98l,.76 | File type: PDF | 232 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting book|By Jon|This book was a requirement for my class and while it has a great story and even emotional tones, I found it boring and hard to get through. Maybe it just wasn't for me since I am a male and couldn't really relate. My girlfriend read it and she loved it so to each their own.|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| a||
“Jody Raphael conveys a gripping story of one woman’s journey through abuse, drug addiction, and imprisonment. The third of Raphael’s trilogy of books about Chicago women enmeshed in lives of poverty, violence, prostitution, and drug use
Tammara (Tammy) Johnson is an African-American woman in her fifties, an ex-addict with a 19-year heroin habit and a felony record, who works as the job development trainer for an in-patient drug treatment program in south suburban Chicago. Raised in a middle-class family, Tammy left home early because she could not live up to parental expectations. She turned to drugs and crime and was eventually incarcerated for selling drugs.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law) | Jody Raphael. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
