From
a Hard Rock to a Gem:
A Memoir of a Lost Soul
Diamond Faith Sterling is an inner-city girl fashioned by her environment
where crime, poverty and injustice abound and childhood dreams too often
become dreams deferred. She has decided that, while society has denied
her any chance to enter Heaven (to go to college, to become a professional),
she will accept nothing less than ruling Hell (the inner-city and the
streets of East Oakland). This one time street-corner drug-pusher transforms
herself into a gritty queenpin: the ruthless leader of a multimillion-dollar
narcotics syndicate as builds her empire piece by bloody piece. More
and more, she desires to (in the parlance of the inner-city) flip her
money into something genuine and she begins to focus on her childhood
dreams of being somebody. Yet, to rise to Heaven, one must cut ties
to Hell...and for this hard rock anti-heroine, giving up the empire
she fought so hard to build proves to be the toughest, most gut-wrenching
challenge of all...