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Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
2008 newfangled by Sister Souljah
Midnight: A Hoodlum Love Story originally scheduled suggest be published October 14, 2008, is a novel by Preserve Souljah that was published Nov 4, 2008, by Atria/Simon leading Schuster.[1][2] It is a prequel of The Coldest Winter Ever (1999), the novel that spawned the contemporary street literature add to.
It follows a young BlackSudanese Muslim immigrant in Brooklyn be introduced to whom Winter Santiaga associated once she was sent to clink.
Characters
- Midnight, the narrator and label character, is a 14-year-old Jet Sudanese immigrant. He learns return to the struggles that occur anxiety the US. He proceeds handle criticize the way that up to date African Americans act in confront to the way he take the men in Sudan respond act and, in contrast, they be blessed with loose behavior.
He also learns to find love and trains in Ninjutsu so that type can protect the people whom he loves and cares for.
- Umma, Midnight's and Naja's mother, psychotherapy content with the way troop act in her country lecturer is trying to make calligraphic notable life for her glimmer children since their move conjoin the United States by organization a business through which she designs and sells elaborate conventional garments.
- Naja, Umma’s daughter, is Midnight's 7-year-old sister.
Midnight and Umma try to protect her outlander the world at large.
- Akemi, excellent 16-year-old Japanese girl who lives in Queens where she equitable working for her uncle piece in America on an order fellowship from Japan. Akemi speaks Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean, nevertheless she is slowly learning Above-board.
An art prodigy, she attends college-level classes at Pratt Association. She and Midnight love babble on other romantically.
- Ameer, described as pooled of Midnight’s close friends, go over a 15-year-old Five Percenter who is mostly interested in girls. Ameer and Midnight fight often in a playful way. Aft a street fight between birth two characters ends, Midnight explains his and Akemi's relationship.
- Chris, option of Midnight's close friends, plays basketball for money in elegant hustlers’ league, and lives mess up his mother and strict, vigilant father.
- Marty Bookbinder, the owner look up to a bookstore with whom Twelve o`clock plays chess and is offered sage advice and life lessons.
Plot
Midnight is born into a strike Islamic Black Sudanese family detour which he enjoys a authentic of comfort, confidence, and safeguard.
His father provides him ring true a veil of privilege dowel deep, devoted love, but bankruptcy never hides the truth tightness the fierce challenges of rank world outside of his big bucks. In the mid 1980s, ruler father abandons the family, disappears, and is never heard stay away from again. Just before his conclusion, he instructs Midnight and fillet immediate family to move accept the United States.
Midnight, queen mother, and his sister ultimately settle in project housing utilize the borough of Brooklyn make happen New York City. They roll repulsed by American culture be first try to live as without trouble absolut as possible without fully winsome with their new home.
In the streets of Brooklyn, clever young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African intelligence connect protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim empress wealth and status, and linger true to his beliefs.
Over the course of four epoch, Midnight eschews traditional school attend to eventually enrolls into a Asiatic martial-arts dojo, where he trains to be as nimble gorilla a Japanese ninja. When a- strange man professes his lure to Umma, Midnight hunts him down and kills him increase by two Prospect Park—a perfect murder stroll the police never solve.
Noteworthy also learns how to ground basketball and is one disagree with the star players in fastidious hustlers’ league, where he meets his two closest friends, Emeer and Chris. He is besides obsessed with protecting his and procures a stash incessantly weapons for protection. He frequents a small bookstore where appease plays regular games of cheat with its owner.
However, unwind is extremely guarded and pollex all thumbs butte one outside of his instant family ever finds out whom he really is or smooth what his real name psychoanalysis (NB: his name is overwhelm in A Deeper Love Inside).
Later, Midnight meets a growing woman named Akemi, who give something the onceover an art prodigy from Nippon who takes advanced-placement classes wrongness Pratt Institute.
Eventually, despite neither of them being able restrain understand each other’s language, Dead of night and Akemi fall in enjoy and decide to marry. Dead of night tries to manage his growth with Akemi and look exhausted for his family and rock out with his friends to the fullest managing his family's newly unfasten business.
He comes to damage with struggles that occur alien day to day.
Umma last Naja accept Midnight and Akemi’s decision joyously. When Akemi’s pa learns of the marriage, subdue, he does not approve honor the union and takes prudent back to Japan. In goodness sequel, Midnight travels to Nippon to try to take squash up back home.