Pretty Girl County / Lakita Wilson / Book Review
PRETTY GIRL COUNTY Prince George's County produces exactly one type of girl: designer clothes, custom pink cars, fancy gated community cookouts. Girls exactly like Reya Samuels. Sure, Reya might work hard, but she can get pretty much anything she wants when she wants it. Which is absolutely not how Sommer Watkins's life works. Sommer is from Seat Pleasant, which doesn't come with cast iron gates around bougie mansions but cast iron bars on the windows. Her neighbors are struggling to make ends meet. Sommer hustles every day to help her dad's bookstore stay afloat and to save the money she'll need to go to the college of her dreams, Spelman. The fact that she and Reya go to the same school is due to scholarship, nothing else. But Sommer and Reya used to be best friends. Back when Reya lived in Seat Pleasant, too. Before her mother's law career (and reality TV stardom) took off. And now that Reya's been waitlisted f...