Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

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Overview

Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature

Finalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History

"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland

“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York Times

“I know a lot of people think they know what it’s like to grow up in the hood. Like maybe they watched a couple of seasons of The Wire and they got the shit all figured out. But TV doesn’t tell the whole story.” – Ms. Pat

They called her Rabbit.

Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat was taught to roll drunks for money. At twelve, she was targeted for sex by a man eight years her senior. By thirteen, she was pregnant. By fifteen, Pat was a mother of two.

Alone at sixteen, Pat was determined to make a better life for her children. But with no job skills and an eighth-grade education, her options were limited. She learned quickly that hustling and humor were the only tools she had to survive. Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and unexpected humor. With wisdom and humor, Pat gives us a rare glimpse of what it’s really like to be a black mom in America.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062407313
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 05/22/2018
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 120,949
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Patricia Williams, the fifth child of an alcoholic single mother, came of age in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. At 12, she had her first boyfriend; by 15 she was a mother of two. Williams wanted to give her children the kind of life she’d always dreamed of, but with no education or job skills her options were slim. Thus began Williams’ lucrative career as a drug dealer. After numerous run-ins with the law and a stint behind bars, Williams decided to turn her life around. She now goes by the stage name Ms. Pat and enjoys a successful career as a comedian. Williams lives in Indianapolis with her husband and three children.


Award-winning journalist Jeannine Amber lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, Niko.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Bear Cat 5

Chapter 2 Hot Lead 13

Chapter 3 Struggling and Scheming 19

Chapter 4 Angel in Leather Boots 31

Chapter 5 Devil in Disguise 37

Chapter 6 First Dance 43

Chapter 7 Love Lesson 51

Chapter 8 Age of Consent 57

Chapter 9 Love and Options 63

Chapter 10 Wife on the Side 69

Chapter 11 It's Time 75

Chapter 12 Baby Formula 83

Chapter 13 Hustlers and the Weak 91

Chapter 14 Night Crawlers 99

Chapter 15 Partners in Crime 105

Chapter 16 Mama on the Block 111

Chapter 17 The Breakup 123

Chapter 18 Aim Higher 133

Chapter 19 Locked Up 143

Chapter 20 Hood Wisdom 153

Chapter 21 Mr. Nice Guy 163

Chapter 22 Four More 173

Chapter 23 Letting Go 181

Chapter 24 Job Readiness 187

Chapter 25 Eight Minus Four 197

Chapter 26 Angels 203

Epilogue 215

How This Book Came To Be 219

Acknowledgments 223

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