Laughing in the dark : from colored girl to woman of color--a journey from prison to power

"An award-winning Washington Post reporter explores the twisted path she traveled to find her place as a confident black female in a world that values whiteness and maleness. Here is a rich and insightful story of a life lived on the edge by a woman formerly preoccupied with pleasing everyone but herself. From the Hardcover edition."@en
"One hot day in June 1970, twenty-one-year-old Patrice Gaines stared through a narrow jail cell window at her baby daughter cradled in the arms of her grandfather on the street below. She called to her daughter, but she couldn't hear her through the thick barred glass. She waved, but her little daughter didn't know where to look to find her mother. In that moment of supreme isolation and loss, Patrice Gaines became determined to make something of her life. Starting out as an unwed mother with a drug rap, a black woman in an America that honored neither blacks nor women, she would have a hard and painful journey. Laughing in the Dark tells how Gaines became a woman her daughter could be proud of - a woman capable of both independence and love."

"Laughing in the dark : from colored girl to woman of color--a journey from prison to power"@en
"Laughing in the dark : from colored girl to woman of color-a journey from prison to power"
"Laughing in the dark : from colored girl to woman of color--a journey from prison to power"
"Laughing in the dark from colored girl to woman of color--a journey from prison to power"@en
"Laughing in the dark : from colored girl to woman of color : a journey from prison to power"