Tamara: The Woman Who Conquered Baltimore

A riveting depiction of one woman’s victorious struggle to stake out a unique place in the American Noughties, Tamara: The Woman Who Conquered Baltimore captures the intersection of addiction, poverty, sexism, and racism in a way few narratives have managed. Set almost entirely in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, this hybrid of a novel and a memoir recounts the courageous journey of Tamara Tifareth as she transitions her identity through a series of social roles to better understand who she really is and why she exists at all. The pacing and dark humor of the story place it a notch above the sanctimonious style that has come to dominate so much recent social commentary fiction.