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Midnight: A Gangster Love Story [Hardcover]

Sister Souljah
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Book Description

November 4, 2008
Sister Souljah, the hip-hop generation's number one author and most compelling storyteller, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, strength and family. In her bestselling novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah introduced the world to Midnight, a brave but humble lieutenant to a prominent underworld businessman. Now, in a highly anticipated follow-up to her million-selling masterpiece, she brings readers into the life and dangerously close to the heart of this silent, fearless young man.

Raised in a wealthy, influential, Islamic African family, Midnight enjoys a life of comfort, confidence, and protection. Midnight's father provides him with a veil of privilege and deep, devoted love, but he never hides the truth about the fierce challenges of the world outside of his estate. So when Midnight's father's empire is attacked, he sends Midnight with his mother to the United States.

In the streets of Brooklyn, a young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African intelligence to protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim his wealth and status, and remain true to his beliefs.

Midnight, a handsome and passionate young man, attracts many women. How he interacts and deals with them is a unique adventure. This is a highly sensual and tremendous love story about what a man is willing to risk and give to the women he loves most. Midnight will remain in your mind and beat in your heart for a lifetime.

Her "raw and true voice" (Publishers Weekly) will both soothe and arouse you. In a beautifully written and masterfully woven story, Sister Souljah has given us Midnight, and solidified her presence as the mother of all contemporary urban literature.


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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books; First Edition edition (November 4, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416545182
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416545187
  • Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (467 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Souljah's follow-up to her bestselling novel, TheColdest Winter Ever, is another gritty coming-of-age tale, picking up the story of Midnight (a character in Coldest Winter) as he tries desperately to navigate American culture, Brooklyn streets and the dicey business of growing up. The novel begins as seven-year-old Midnight and his pregnant mother, Umma, are forced to leave their privileged life in Sudan for a hardscrabble American existence. Midnight spends his formative years in Brooklyn guiding and translating for his loyal, loving and talented mother, helping her get a factory job while encouraging her to start a clothing line. Eventually, Midnight starts working at a Chinatown fish shop, finds love, joins a dangerous hustler's basketball league and tries to disentangle his ambivalent feelings toward romance, family and personal honor. Souljah's sensitive treatment of her protagonist is honest and affecting, with some realistic moments of crisis. Unfortunately, a slack plot and slow pacing cause serious bloat, and Souljah's distinctive prose is woefully unpolished. Frustrations aside, Souljah has obvious talent and sincere motives, making her a street-lit sophomore worth watching. (Oct.)
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About the Author

Sister Souljah is best known for her work as a political activist and educator of underclass urban youth. A graduate of Rutgers University, she is a beloved personality in her own community. She lives in Jersey City with her husband and son.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books; First Edition edition (November 4, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416545182
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416545187
  • Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (467 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sister Souljah is a successful political activist and educator of underclass youth. Her national bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever, considered the definitive novel of the hip-hop generation, marked her fiction debut; she is also the author of a memoir entitled No Disrespect. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Customer Reviews

For me, like a lot of people have written the book is too unrealistic. Leslie George  |  67 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
79 of 85 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars mixed emotions about this November 10, 2008
Format:Hardcover
Like others have said, it is a prequel, it does get boring at times, and does appear unbelievable at others. However, it is a very ambitious and provacative novel. It's literature. It will make you think, it will make you question yourself. It may even have you considering changing the way you operate. It does calls American born blacks out about their behavior and beliefs - hell, all Americans for that matter. Midnight is vicious. Was it worth the wait? No. Is it worth $26.95? No. However, it is worth the read. It can generate some serious dialogue in our community. It's a very intellectual read that can and should be appreciated. It provides plenty to talk about if you can manage to finish it.
My biggest problem is it left me with too many questions, more questions than I had going into it. And, I'm just hoping it doesn't take another ten years get the answers.
Also, I don't think it should be referred to as a gangster's love story becasue nothing about Midnight, in this story, is gangster. Yes, he is a killer - solely for the protection of himself and loved ones - but NOT a gangster.
So, if you're looking to reunite with Winter and her family and will be highly disappointed if they are not there, don't waste your money. If your don't mind be taken on a journey that's overly informative yet sometimes dull along they way, then gear up. Midnight aint for everybody.
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63 of 68 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Midnight November 5, 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
First off if you are looking for a sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever, this aint it, you will be very disappointed. Though the story is about the charachter Midnight from the Coldest Winter Ever, this book is about his life before the Santiagos. As a matter of fact the oldest he gets in this book is the age of fourteen. But let me tell you he happens to be a very mature fourteen yr. old, who lives the life of a well bred man who instead if giving into temptation resist it. I found him so captivating the way he lives his life, the culture, the religion, though I do not agree with everything of muslim faith i do believe that if we all could just live by this one law, no fornication!!! we would be much better off as a people, Dont You Think? My favorite charachter in this book after Midnight of course, is Bangs I found her as he did funny but also bold. As much as I respected Midnight for staying true to hiself and his beliefs I found myself a little upset that things could'nt and would'nt come together for Midnight and Bangs i really believe he would have made a big difference in her life a positive difference. so even though I was a little disappointed that this had nothing to do with the Coldest Winter Ever. I was not disapointed with this book not at all. All ive got to say is Sister Souljah you better be working on part2 Because you can not leave me hangin like this!!!!!!!
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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars IS THAT ALL?!!! December 9, 2008
Format:Hardcover
"The Coldest Winter Ever" is one of the best books I have ever read. Having said that, I was extremely disappointed with "Midnight". First off, the book was entirely too long to only have gotten to where it went. It does not take almost 500 pages to describe a mere 7 years in someone's life. Further, the story left far too many gaps, loopholes and contradictions for me. Midnight was selling drugs in TCWE. How does such an "intelligent", "disciplined" boy who "always makes the right choices" end up such a way? In addition, the first chapter talks about how women love him because of how they feel with his weight on top of them, yet he's a virgin who only sleeps with one woman the entire book through! That would be fine if "women" wasn't a plural word!

The entire wedding saga baffled me. What did that have to do with Midnight? And if his father was so rich, why were they so poor? Why couldn't they contact him? He wasn't dead? What happened to Umma (his mother) and Naja (his sister)? Did they move into the house? They weren't mentioned in TCWE. As a matter of fact, Santiaga treated him like his own son because he had no family! This was unreal!

If you are thinking this book will give you insight into Midnight's existence, you are sadly mistaken! If you are looking for some cultural understanding of the Sudanese culture, you may find it here. However, it is definitely not worth reading close to 500 pages to end up with a 14-year-old boy illegally married to a non-English-speaking, Japanese girl who's taken away from him without resolution!

Take my advice. It's not worth your money or your time! I am thoroughly surprised at Sister Souljah. While it was obvious she has a good writing style, she obviously didn't have a lot to say.
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38 of 45 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Me No Like November 22, 2008
Format:Hardcover
Turr-uh-ible!!!
Turr-uh-ible!!!
Turr-uh-ible!!!

Black women other than Sister Souljah apparently are the
scum of New York according to this book. None of them are worthy.

On top of that they're supposed to base their worth on being able
to have a Man and be part of his Muslim harem with their faces all
covered up.

What a great message for our daughters.

I guess being a fat-face chubby something like Sister Souljah
would make any woman dream of being covered up and repressed to
"SUBMIT" to her black massa kang.

This book left a bad taste in my mouth. Too much stuff in it that
just doesn't jibe like a 14 year old acting 40.

Knowing what I know about Sudan, I doubt if the brown Arab-looking
woman with straight hair in the photos who is supposed to be Midnight's
"mother" would be so proud to have a pure black son in Sudan.

Does the author not know that Khartoum brown Arab Muslims are slaughtering
millions of pure black Muslims in Darfur as we speak? For nothing more than being too black?

So how is UMMA the only brown straight hair Muslim in Sudan proud to have
a child who looks pure as black can get? Like I said, knowing Sudan I
just don't buy Sister Soujah's Muslim Fairy Tale.

The book is too long 500 pages. The author doesn't have the courage
to call out the black Hip Hop men who abandoned her Pro-Black Nationalist
rhetoric and got with anything but a SISTER so she takes it out on black
women blaming them for the fact that she never had a daddy. The moral
of the story claims if only we'd submit to Islam and be obedient to some
group of men we'd all be noble.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Sister Souljah
I was so glad to read about Midnight. He was a kid that had to grow up faster than he had too however the author did well with the story to let us know he was well prepared at an... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Black Beauty
2.0 out of 5 stars Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
This book just didn't do it for me. I wasn't expecting it to be like Coldest Winter Ever, but I did expect a little more.
Published 14 days ago by June Poole
1.0 out of 5 stars Hated it!
I absolutely hated this book. After reading it, I despised it even more. As I read all 400+ pages, I kept waiting for the good part...it never happened. Read more
Published 22 days ago by cm
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent!
Im half way through the book but I fell in love with it right away. I like the way Midnight was brought up. Read more
Published 25 days ago by lhm1029
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
I loved it. When I first tried reading it when it first came out I couldn't get into but after reading her last book and Midnight appeared in the end I was intrigued to read about... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Crystal Dickerson
4.0 out of 5 stars midnight
I love it for what it is. I believe it speaks to all but i wonder who her true audience was on this book because it would appeal more to the Afro-Ameri male or the student or... Read more
Published 1 month ago by mo fuge
1.0 out of 5 stars This book was sofa king misleading
I want to start off by saying I got a couple of heads up about how garbage this book was but refused to believe sista souljah could do a sista like that so I decided to barrow it... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Garza Mora
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
So boring and disappointing. Nothing like TCWE...It could have been totally different but still interesting. I just really did not enjoy her writing style in this book.
Published 1 month ago by Mels
5.0 out of 5 stars A Gangster Love Story
I did not read this book. It was a gift for our Granddaughter and she has told me that she found it very interesting. And she has also read The Coldest Winter Ever.
Published 1 month ago by Rae
1.0 out of 5 stars Midnight: a boy that think's he's grown, but he really doesn't know a...
This book confused the hell out of me. I really don't know what Sister Souljah was trying to accomplish here, but whatever it was, it failed miserably. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Maluba
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the thing about "coldest winter" is that midnight was never really discussed. no one really knew anything about him or why he acted the way he did. this book is suppose to give you inside on who midnight is. I read the first few pages and I actually liked it. he's not the typical... Read more
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I am with Assata 100%. If I could write a review as well as Assata, I would have written the exact same words. I'm okay with MIDNIGHT (A Gangster Love Story). It is a different kind of story with some familiarity! It is eye-opening and thought-provoking. In my opinion, there is A LOT of good... Read more
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Does anyone know if Sista Souljah is planning to release the sequel to...
According to her website, she writing two books now to be released in 2010. One of the books is about Porsche Santiaga, Winter's sister. The other one is supposed to hook up TCWE and Midnight.
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sequel to the Coldest Winter Ever
Me too!! I can't wait!!
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