Coldest Winter Ever Summary

Set in the projects of Brooklyn, New York, The Coldest overwinter Ever is the spirit level of wintertime Santiaga (aptly named because she was born during one of New Yorks worst snowstorms), the rebellious, pampered teenage fille of a notorious drug dealer. Ricky Santiaga, winters father, has attained substantial wealth through and through his illegal drug empire and lavishes his wife, Winter, and Winters three younger sisters, Porsche, Lexus, and Mercedes, with the best things funds can (and cannot) buy. Unknown to her father, Winter uses her hustling tricks to get whatever she wants.Winters world is cancelled upside down on her 16th birthday, when her father suddenly decides to relocate his family and his growing business to Long Island, but she is determined not to take apart ties with the old neighborhood. Her life spirals downward when her mother is shot in the view by foes of her father. Shortly afterward, the FBI arrives at the Santiaga mansion while Winter is at a par ty, seizes the familys possessions, and sends the drug lord to prison. At this juncture, Winters sisters are placed in child custody, rather than in their unemployed mothers custody.Winter escapes by make-believe to not be her parents daughter. Winter stays with a man further for his bullion for a while, but when his girl befriend comes back, Winter goes to live with an aunt. bit with the Aunt, Winters location is revealed, and she is turned over to the Bureau of Child Welfare. Winters location was belike divulged by Natalie, a former friend of Winters, who suspected that Winter was arduous to date her young buck. While visiting her father in jail, she finds discover that he had an infant son and was cheating on her mother, which tears her apart. Also, her father dispatch someone while in jail.After being taken extinct of her aunts home, Winter starts living at the House of Success, a group home for teenage girls. Her new surroundings do not stop her from hustling she mak es money by selling clothes and cigarettes to her housemates, and she does their hair. Winter obtains the goods she sells from her friend Simone, who is a booster who steals designer clothes for her. Winter continues making money this way until Simone is arrested. Winter does not bail out now-pregnant Simone, but Simone gets out another way. Upon her release, Simone gathers some friends to wait so that they can beat upWinter. Winter escapes the beating by running and never returns. Then Simone fall and has a mis gondola carriage. Rashida, one of Winters House of Success housemates, thinks that Winter needs help and persuades her to go to a friends house. Winter doesnt know that the friend is Sister Souljah, whom Winter boldly stated she never liked in the books introduction. Under Souljahs tutelage, Winter volunteers at a benefit for people with HIV/ support, but Winter still does whatever she can to get money. Winter steals money from the AIDS benefit and rushes home to pack.Suspi cious of Winter leaving, Lauren, Souljahs sister, switches the bag into which Winter has draw up her prized belongings. Winter takes a cab to a New Jersey hotel, and realizes that she has no money, no jewels, and no protection. Winter hooks up with an old boyfriend named skunk, who has money. She finds out that she is pregnant with the baby of a man who tricked her into believing he was hip-hop MC GS. Months later, Winters world crashes again when she is attacked in a car by Simone. A crowd gathers to watch the fight, and Winter loses focus when she sees Bullet cause the crowd to disperse by waving a sub in the air.Once Winter looks away, Simone slashes her across the face with a blue bottle. Winter is led back to the car by Bullet and, abruptly afterward, the police arrive. Bullet leaves Winter, who gets a mandatory 15-year prison sentence for transporting drugs in his rental car. Soon, her old friends Natalie and Simone join her in prison, and her younger sister in the end b ecomes just like her. The ending surprises after her father was jailed, Winter talked virtually being let out of prison to attend her mothers funeral.