In this true account, a college student, who struggled financially in an urban environment, amuses with anecdotes about lacking cash in a variety of humiliating situations: buying discount groceries, dodging her landlord, and hanging ...

A witty, bittersweet look at growing up biracial in America by the author of The Broke Diaries describes growing up in an interracial family, the complications of her parents' divorce and her move to an all-black neighborhood, and how...