Raising Warrior Queens

About the Book

The Dawson women: Mazzy Dawson, a mulatto sushi chef in southern California, who struggles with the untimely death of her mother and the cloak of mystery that her grandmother keeps her family's history enshrouded in; Kennedy Dawson, a college student who fights heroin addiction and racial tensions at an L. A. County drug detox to bring her unborn child into the world; and Lucy Dawson, a discontented housewife in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, who, during the 1960's, starts to question the racially segregated suburban world around her and ultimately chooses an unconventional and dangerous path for love.

In, Raising Warrior Queens, Teresa C. Smith examines the rarely simple, sometimes tumultuous and always loyal mother/daughter dynamic with sharp wit and a tender, yet unwavering eye.

About the Author

Teresa C. Smith has worked as a Licensed Psychiatric Technician for over ten years. Her out reach work to displaced mentally ill adults and employment as a detox nurse with heroin addicted patients in Los Angeles, combined with her experiences as a single mother of two, has given her an insider's perspective to the issues discussed in her debut novel, Raising Warrior Queens.