Crushed Ice A Memoir

Imagine growing up in a small Southern town surrounded by sugarcane fields, snakes, alligator-infested canals, and palm trees. Imagine growing up in a city where most people struggle financially, where the nearest grocery store is five miles away, where there is no hospital, where there is only one traffic light, and where most people know one another. Can you imagine growing up in a family that has many secrets that could either destroy family ties or create bonds that could last a lifetime? Welcome to Latangela Coleman-Crossfield's family secrets, incest, murder, and lies. It was once easy for Latangela to conclude that she was the culprit of her "demise." After all, her mother often told her that she would not amount to a hill of beans, that she was nothing, and that she would never be anything. She sometimes believes these perceptions yet struggles to conceive them as reality.