InSignificantly Unique

About the Book

While sitting on the front porch of her Detroit home, Unique Jefferson, takes an overview account of the details that had taken place in the last seventeen years of her life. She struggles with the murder of a Father that she loved dearly but never really got a chance to know.

She wrestles with the idea of forgiving a mother who had abandoned her years earlier. Unique’s world is turned upside down as she tries to figure out how to survive, at age fourteen, while providing food and shelter for a brother whom she has become both Mother and Father to. Unique loses her way and begins to give in to the thoughts of a defeated and irrelevant existence. But during a traumatic turn of events, she is lead on an unforgettable journey that would alter her life forever.

About the Author

Bethel Bates, novelist, playwright, and songwriter, began writing at the early age of twelve and profiles her work mostly through the eyes of the urban experience. Her life growing up on the north side of Philadelphia, gave way to a literary voice for which she expresses her everyday living experience in a journal of novels, stage plays, songs, and poems. In 2009 she published her first book, Hot Buttered Biscuits and Jam, the Memoirs of Seven.