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A family story for the twenty-first century, based on the phenomenally popular Texts from Bennett Tumblr blog, this epistolary novel chronicles the year that Bennett and the rest of his freeloading family moved into his cousin Mac's household.
Hardworking Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal has a problem, and its name is Bennett. His wannabe gangsta cousin is seventeen, uses drugs and foul language, claims to be 13 percent black, and swears he speaks "da female language." (Strangely that last one sort of seems true.)
But as different as they are, when Bennett and his mom lose their home, Mac's got their backs. They're family after all. Sure, it takes patience to live with the eternally smoked-out Bennett and the pill-popped Aunt Lily, but he can handle it.
You know who can't? Mac's very pretty, very WASPy, very uptight girlfriend. So as his once-peaceful household gets completely crazy, Mac learns that wanna-be-Crips are thicker than water, that his little cousin--flawed, irreverent, and basically a Saturday morning cartoon gone horribly wrong--has become his mentor, and that he really has no idea what's up with girls.
Author Notes
Mac Lethal (aka David Sheldon) is a rapper, videographer, and entrepreneur from Kansas City, Missouri. His albums have charted in the top 100 on Billboard through his Black Clover Records label. His videos have gone viral online (see "Pancake Rap") and earned his YouTube channel a spot as that platform's most viewed in the world for six weeks straight. Connect with him on Facebook, or follow him on Twitter via @MacLethal.
Reviews (1)
Booklist Review
Kansas City rapper Lethal presents a well-intended, albeit a little uneven, first novel. The voice is inconsistent, and the story line seems forced at times, but the heart of the novel is pure. Mac is a 30-year-old professional white rapper who is self-educated and making a living by working on the road and in the studio. He has a beautiful and wealthy fiancee, lives in a new home, and enjoys a good glass of wine. The conflict begins when his down-and-out aunt and cousin Bennet move in. Seventeen-year-old Bennet is all gangsta. He is not black, although he contends, I'm thirteen percent black, man! And although Mac intends to help Bennet, it is Bennet who educates Mac on accepting people for who they are. This is a necessary novel that follows the phenomenon of poor white teens diving into black cultural stereotypes. The language is rough but true, and tough issues are addressed with care and understanding.--Eleveld, Mark Copyright 2010 Booklist
