"D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died. By the time her mama came and got her and she took one last walk on out of our lives, I felt like we'd grown up and grown old and lived a hundred lives in those few years that we knew her. But we hadn't really. We'd just gone from being eleven to being thirteen. Three girls. Three the Hard Way. In the end, it was just me and Neeka again."
Told in first person by one of the girls who call themselves Three the Hard Way, this thoughtful books tells the story of one year in their lives…how music can touch our hearts and enrich our lives, how relationships change our life paths and how time and place often determines our Big Purpose. The two girls are living quietly in their neighborhood, knowing everyone, sharing friendship and musical interests when D comes into their lives and shows them the way other people live. In the year that follows (between their twelfth and thirteenth birthdays) they become fast friends who share more than a love of music, clothes and a burgeoning independence. When D’s mother comes to get her, their lives are forever changed by their relationship…and they will never for a minute forget Tupac and his music, or D and her impact on them. D and Tupac had much in common and we live in hopes that their story is not ended.
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