by Felicia Pearson
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Publication Date: Nov 01, 2007
List Price: $22.00
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780446195188
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Hachette Livre
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Book Reviewed by Troy Johnson
This Review Appears in the Fall 2007 Issue of Harlem World Magazine
Grace After Midnight.Fans of the Wire will recognize the strong Baltimore accent and confident swagger which personifies ’Snoop’s' character on the HBO hit TV series. Pearson's portrayal, erringly realistic, is no accident, or the product of acting school; but the result of living the life portrayed in the HBO Drama.
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Told in a series of short, accessible, chapters, we are led by the hand through Pearson's rough and tumble life: absent biological parents, homosexuality, manslaughter, drug dealing it is all laid out for all to see in plain unassuming language.
The most remarkable part of this story is Pearson's encounter with of grace. Grace is how Pearson made the transition from ex-con drug dealer to TV star. Her ability to recognize and ultimately accept grace, is a lesson from which we can all benefit.
Published by Grand Central Publishing (Nov. 1st 2007), Grace After Midnight is a highly recommended read ’ especially for The Wire fans.
Grace After Midnight is also Review by Kam Williams
'I'm not making excuses, and I'm not feeling sorry for myself. don't expect you to feel sorry for me either. Just want to tell my story while it's fresh.
Just want to make sure other people know my story, especially the kids on the streets and the kids working the corners. Just want to let them know that you can get over without killing people and selling packs.
I did all that. Fact is, I was still doing it up till a couple of years ago. Then something happened. This book is about what happened.'
’Excerpted from the Preface (pg. 1)
What is it about the Baltimore prisons that has it turning murderers into movie stars? First, Charles S. Dutton, convicted of stabbing a dude to death during a street fight, took up acting while behind bars before embarking on an enviable career during which he's won three Emmys and an NAACP Image Awards thusfar. Now we have the equally-promising Felicia Pearson playing Snoop on HBO's 'The Wire' after serving just six years for shooting 15 year-old Kia Toomer in the back.
Because Felicia was just 14 herself at the time of the slaying, the State of Maryland was not about to lock her up and throw away the key.
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In Grace After Midnight, the presumably rehabilitated ex-con recounts her perilous path from the ghetto to the penitentiary to being granted a new lease on life by the producers of the Baltimore-based television series.
The as-told-to memoir was ghostwritten by the very prolific David Ritz, whose impressive resume’ reveals that he has previously collaborated on autobiographies with everyone from Tavis Smiley to Ray Charles to Sinbad to Aretha to B.B. King to Don Rickles to the Neville Brothers to Robert Guillaume to Grandmaster Flash to Smokey Robinson to Gary Sheffield to Laila Ali. Ritz is also a Grammy Award-winner and co-composer of Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing.'
Judging by the convincing narrative coursing through Grace After Midnight, it is apparent that Mr. Ritz has a knack for assisting any celeb in turning a rags-to-riches tale into a riveting tome without losing any of the flava which might make it sound legit. Felicia's hardships were particularly challenging to overcome, given that she was born premature to a singe-mom crackhead.
Despite being raised by doting foster parents, her future was all but gobbled up by a tough neighborhood where she was hardened by all the teasing she took for being an adopted, cross-eyed tomboy. So, by the time she was twelve, she already owned a gun and was ready to use it on anybody who rubbed her the wrong way.
After killing Kia, Felicia was convicted of 2nd degree murder and sent up the river, where she started a thriving black market business in dildos. Meanwhile, she blossomed as a lesbian, and entered a monogamous relationship with a correctional officer. But that liaison didn't survive her parole, primarily because her lover suddenly became very possessive.
Without direction or a family to ground her, Felicia returned to the streets where she supported herself by dealing drugs. Only near the close of this raw memoir, does she describe the occasion on which she was spotted at a nightclub by Michael K. Williams, co-star of 'The Wire.'
Next thing you know, Felicia's added to the ensemble cast and waxing euphoric about her new showbiz career, her sordid past ostensibly behind her for good. The End. Undeniably an entertaining read, but excuse me for still feeling a little cheated by a preface which had promised, 'This book is about what happened' after she landed the acting gig.
Editors Note:
| Melvin ’Little Melvin’ Williams, the inspiration for the fantastically popular HBO television series The Wire, served 26.5 years in prison. Williams also has a recurring role on the HBO series, playing the character Deacon. Williams is also the subject of an episode (2007) of BET's American Gangster: http://www.bet.com/OnTV/BETShows/americangangster/ontv_americangangster_melvinwilliams.htm |
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While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable about “Snoop” is what she has overcome in her life. Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore. Those streets are among the toughest in the world, but Snoop was tougher. The runt of the ghetto showed an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence and thrived as a baby gangsta until she landed in Jessup state penitentiary after killing a woman in self-defense. There she rebelled violently against the system, and it was only through the cosmic intervention of her mentor, Uncle Loney, that she turned her life around. A couple of years ago, Snoop was discovered in a nightclub by one of The Wire’s cast members and quickly recruited to be one of television’s most frightening and intriguing villains.
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Unlike the rest of the world, I didn’t manage to come across a certain HBO show that simply changed the world, right under my ignorant nose. The Wire went off the air over 6 years ago, but I figured it was never to late to see what all the fuss was about. And as I mentioned in our previous interview with one of the show’s stars, Michael Kostroff, I was absolutely smitten with this delightful piece of television drama that was gritty as hell, and downright fucking nerve-racking to watch at times. And no character truly exemplified the gritty realness and instability of the streets of Baltimore like the cold-blooded killer Snoop, who was 1/2 responsible for the couple of dozen bodies that laid slain in the abandon buildings of Baltimore using nothing more than cold ass heart and an expensive nail gun.
But, what if you were to learn that there was indeed some truth behind this fascinating character? What if there the space between reality and fantasy wasn’t nearly as wide as you originally imagined? It’s easy to understand that any kind of fictional television or film drama is normally based on some sort of truth. But, what if the truth was fiction than you could ever imagine possible? Well, if you can’t, you would do yourself a world of good to check out Felicia “Snoop” Pearson’s memoir, Grace After Midnight.
Now Real Snoop is not a cold-blooded killer who leaves bodies to rot simply because that’s “just the way it is.” In fact, nowadays, she is about as far from something of that nature as possible. But, Real Snoop and Fake Snoop were once very similar. It should be evident enough that David Simon and folks behind The Wire wanted this woman with no previous acting credits, a girl straight from the streets in which they were suppose to be portraying, to not only star as a very important figure in the show, but to even keep not only her own name, but her own identity. Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is about as close to the overall story of Baltimore that The Wire tended to portray to the world. In fact, I would find it safe to say that Snoop IS the story of Baltimore. Albeit a sad and disturbing one at times, but the real story.
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Snoop with Michael K. Williams at SXSW 2013
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In very natural and stylistic prose, Snoop (with co-author credit going to David Ritz) runs through the series of events as well as some prime examples of what it meant to live and ride in East Baltimore to kick off the book. Her matter-of-factly type prose is somewhat frightening even. You can watch enough hood movies and episodes of The Wire, but when you hear these stories first hand, and in such a nonchalant fashion, it just might scare the shit out of you. What is most disturbing is indeed how Snoop can describe events like being 10 years old and shooting a boy in the leg for being a bully with such ease and simplicity that it has that “agh, that was nothing” feel to it. Or watching another man’s brains getting blown straight out the top of their head, and simply keeping a cold dark stair to the shooter mere feet from you. If you have never experience such darkness, there is simply no way you could ever understand. I don’t pretend to, but I am indeed fascinated.
But, with such darkness, there is always a light. Snoops story of ending up in prison as a teenager is probably world renowned by now. During an act of self defense, Snoop found herself spending 6 years of her life behind bars. And it was during her time of incarceration that Snoop truly had to “see the light”, so to speak. We aren’t talking simply about some sort of God like presence, although if that is what you choose to believe, that might just be it. All that can be said is that this courageous young woman felt, what she called, “grace after midnight”. After the death of the man she called Uncle, the man who always had her best intentions at heart and cared for her as family, was gunned down in a drug deal gone bad, Snoop flipped her wig, lost her consciousness and almost lost her own life. But, something happen. Some sort of mysterious force came to her in the middle of the night, and she felt a grave change come over her. A change for the better.
Autocad ws mac free download. Snoop left incarceration at the age of 20 with a whole new outlook on life. She was going to work hard and become the best person she knew she could definitely be. She could be the person that would make Uncle and Mama proud. And she tried, real fucking hard. But in a serious turn of events that represents just one example of a serious problem in our country: we are a nation that tends to say give a big middle finger to the rehabilitated who want nothing more than to change their lives around. Fat cat asshole employers refuse to higher convicted criminals who have “paid their debt to society” (for whatever the hell that is really worth to these savages) and bust their ass on a car assembly or in a factory moving boxes. It is the fear of the criminally charged that leads the hopeless ex-con back to the ways that got them thrown in jail in the first place. And then we complain that our jails are overcrowded. It is a devilish cycle simple doesn’t seem to have an end in sight, until some assholes open their eyes and decide to be the change that needs to happen. Stop with this bullshit “trickle down economics” tactics and try some “throw down a bit of respect” to those you employ. But, I digress……
Snoop soon found her way back on the corner and fighting against the law once again. But, by a stroke of “luck” or “grace” or whatever it is, she found herself in just the right place at the right time to meet The Wire star Michael K. Williams, who obviously saw something that the show needed, and brought her into the life. And, as they say, the rest is history. But, it’s not the ending of the story that matters when you finally finish this powerful memoir. This is a story of perseverance, struggle, striving, failing, loving, and trying. Ms. Pearson is a woman who had obstacles thrown at her from the day she was born. Sometimes these obstacles were brought on by her own accord or by simply ignoring the wonderful people around her who only wanted the best for her. Other times it was a simple cause and effect structure of living the street life. And while her story has some true specificity to it, her story is by large far from uncommon. But in the end, Snoop has won the fight against herself, the fight against her environment, and the fight against the demons that haunt us all. She left her old ways behind after kicking at so much darkness, that it simply had to bleed light.
To sum this book up in a just a few words, Nothing could exemplify Felicia “Snoop” Pearson better than her one last words in this haunting yet beautiful memoir:
“Where does the light come from? And what do you call it?. You can call it God. You call it Jesus. These names are good names. But I call it the miracle of love. I call it Grace After Midnight.”