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    Leslie
    Leslie
    Leslie
    Audiobook (abridged)4 hours

    Leslie

    Written by Omar Tyree

    Narrated by Heather Alicia Simms

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    About this audiobook

    To some she's intelligent and beautiful.
    To others she's proud and dangerous.
    At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions.
    In the eyes of her Haitian immigrant father, Leslie is a queen who deserves more than the broken dreams and carnage of poverty. To her Black Indian mother, she is a source of pride and strength, a reason for carrying on. To her younger sister, already a mother of two and a high school dropout, Leslie is the only person who cares enough to share her woes. To her brother, she is the victim he failed to protect. To her college peers and teachers, Leslie is a determined, resourceful student, most likely to succeed, yet impenetrably private.
    When a series of murders befall her New Orlean's community they point in Leslie's direction. Slowly, her friends and relatives realize they've never really known Leslie -- a complicated young woman terrified of failure, struggling with painful family secrets, praying for security that has eluded everyone around her, and craving the power to change her fate, a power that was hidden from her until now...when it's too late to stop her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2002
    ISBN9780743549424
    Leslie
    Author

    Omar Tyree

    New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree is the winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction, and the 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award for Body of Work in Urban Fiction. He has published more than twenty books on African American people and culture, including five New York Times bestselling novels. He is a popular national speaker, and a strong advocate of urban literacy. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Learn more at OmarTyree.com.

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    • 1/5
      Arthur left little to be desired. The story was flat and undesirable ending ...
    • 4/5
      Didn’t care for the ending but good book. Good read if into nawlins magic.
    • 5/5
      Listening to this I literally felt like I was watching a movie