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The Single Black Mother Effect, Vol. 2: Lakisha's Story
Paperback
Series: The Single Black Mother Effect, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You met her in a storage facility with two children, barely any money left, and a past she was desperately trying to hide from.
But you didn't know how she got there.
Before Lakisha was a twenty-seven-year-old single mother fighting to keep herself and her children safe, she was a little girl waiting for somebody to come back for her.
Her mother's addiction taught her about absence before she was old enough to understand it. The foster-care system introduced her to Renee, another little girl carrying wounds of her own. And when Lakisha's grandmother finally came for her, she learned something that would follow her for the rest of her life:
What it feels like to be chosen.
But being chosen doesn't mean life stops hurting.
As Lakisha grows from a little girl desperate for her mother's love into a young woman trying to build a life of her own, she experiences friendship, loss, first love, grief, motherhood, and the painful consequences of trusting the wrong people.
And through it all is Renee, the best friend who became her sister. Two girls who once shared the same fears and dreamed about the women they would become, only to discover how differently life can unfold when one person has someone willing to come back for her and the other doesn't.
Lakisha's Story takes readers back before the storage facility. Before Sanaa. Before the abuse. Before two children were depending on her to survive.
Back to the little girl who started it all.
Because when Sanaa met Lakisha, she saw a struggling single mother.
Now you'll know the woman behind what she saw.
Every mother has a story.
This is Lakisha's
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