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This is the first of Meesha Mink’s new series featuring three wifeys from three different hoods and is a loose play on the popular ”Real Housewives ” franchise. First up is the scandalous life of Kaeyla Dennis aka Goldie a hood-fabulous wifey from Newark who uses her sex appeal and street... read more
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Summary edit
In the hood, every day is about struggle and survival, and no one understands that daily grind more than twenty-two-year-old Kaeyla “Goldie” Dennis. She’s the been the “wifey” of a older, wealthy businessman since she was fifteen, but the discovery of their long-time affair by his real wife... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Kaeyla Dennis aka Goldie: This ex-wifey has the smarts, determination and the sex appeal to get everything she wants in...but at what cost?
- Damion "Dyme" Gunners: Goldie's first love. Dyme used his small inheritance from the death of his grandmother to become well-off from opening many small businesses in the hood. He has spoiled Kaeyla as his "wifey" for the last seven years...since she was a teenager.
- Yummy: Goldie's flamboyant best friend. Yummy is the epitome of a ride or die friend.
- Hassan "Has" Jackson: Goldie's business partner/distributor. Has is a sexy street hustla whose goods are everything black market or bootlegged: DVDs, pocketbooks, electronics, etc.
- Rick "Slick Rick the Ruler" Hunter: Goldie's boss/lover. Rick, an ex-stripper turned strip club owner, who had to have Goldie in his club and in his bed.
- Make$: Goldie's boss. Make$ is a hip-hop star who falls for one of Goldie's strippers, striking up controversy among the girls.
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
I’m young but far from dumb.
Table of Contents edit
Section 1: MONEY
Section 2: POWER
Section 3: RESPECT
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in Real Wifeys (Trilogy). (standard series)
Followed by Real Wifeys: Get Money.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Meesha Mink (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- BOOK TRAILER: Real Wifeys: On The Grind: Full length book trailer.
- Library Journal - Review of Real Wifeys: On The Grind: PICK OF THE MONTHMink, Meesha. Real Wifeys: On the Grind. Touchstone: S. & S. Jan. 2011. 256p. ISBN 9781439173114. pap. $14.99 FKaeyla “Goldie” Dennis, now 22, is fed up with being a second-place wifey for 45-year-old Dyme Gunners. For seven years she dropped her $100 silk panties and sexed up her sugar daddy anytime, anywhere. That is until Dyme’s wife disses Kaeyla in the streets, and retaliation has Kaeyla swinging a mean tire iron. Rebooting her life, she now has to find a paying job. The streetwise Newark girl tries waitressing, but she hates being “a sweaty, feet-aching, backbreaking, grease-funk-all-up-in-my-hair, lousy-tip-making bitch.” Better money comes from working the pole in a strip club, and soon she’s Slick Rick’s headliner on stage and in his bed. This is one bad woman who relaxes by blazin’ a blunt during sex but who also gets her revenge by firing a taser at a gangster’s private parts. Verdict Marking her solo debut with this new series launch, Mink (coauthor, The Hood Life; Shameless Hoodwives; Desperate Hoodwives) gives Kaeyla a snappy and profane voice laced with sarcasm. She's a charismatic woman, both vulnerable and tough. Female readers will love her, but men may want to check their own woman’s purse for taser wires. Load your shelves with multiple copies. Mink is the pseudonym for Niobia Bryant (Message from a Mistress)
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