Slum Beautiful

About the Book

Slum beautiful is a remarkable, straight forward, poetic and eye stretching memoir of KyDeja Morgan’s (Slum Beautiful) struggling life. In her first 28 years of life she was molested, practiced blasphemous acts, robbed, sold drugs, used drugs, prostituted, and  arrested and almost prosecuted for the murders of both her mother and brother. Like her other siblings, Slum was raised in a dysfunctional family that practiced open sex, used drugs, gambled and treated their home as a hangout for other addicts. Through her avowed journey in life, it would take Slum 28 years and 11 months, along with becoming homeless to find the beauty in her slum (mind, body, soul and surroundings.) she was able to connect, dig out and remove some of the most scattered and unraveling moments of her life thanks to the acts of soliloquy, prison and an unlikely fallen angel along the way. However, before Slum could share her newly found beauty she has to beat a slew of charges, including breaking and entering, robbery, murder-and come fourth with secrets that inadvertently prolonged her vicious life cycle.

Slum Beautiful- in retrospect not only visits the most dangerous place on earth in our heart’s memory, but gives a mind-boggling, touch of retrograde amnesia exploring the inducement of dysfunction in Slum’s family that includes, molestation, sibling rivalry, systematic dependency, drug dependency, self hate, cultural hate, racism, and women and child abuse. Slum Beautiful explores how cycles of injustice begin, and how they can continue to plague without culminating. Penned with a poetic pen, conscience mind, and honest heart, Slum beautiful is the Pangaea of life before the evolution of such disheartening events, and then some. It is an internal reflection of yours and mine. Find your beauty, before the wrong hands do. Without further do, Kenny Attaway presents Slum Beautiful: the soliloquy of the kandy lady.

About the Author

Kenny Attaway, author of Inkquani, Khocolate Happi Vibe and In the Arms of Baby Hop is currently penning two new novels: Mrs. Emmaculate’s Handbook and A Nutt it takes a Stone to Crack.  In addition he is co-penning Hot Knickels and Kool Pennies (Slum’s book of poetry) and Slum Beautiful the movie all slated for a 2008-2009 release. Kenny is also co-authoring a work of art “Re-enacting Trauma in the Classroom: Case studies of emotionally wounded, with a college. ” Kenny lives in Sharon Hill, Pa and is continuing to pursue his PHD in clinical psychology, in unison with penning plays, novels, and movies.  Kenny is also entertaining his prodigious mind with fashion consultation and photography.