Nobody's Child: A Biography is an urban drama. It takes place in the Brooklyn, Queens, and Harlem sections of New York City, from the beginning of the Second Great Migration through to the present. It is a family drama rooted in the life experiences of a mother, my mother Brenda. It's about overcoming drug addiction, complicated black family dynamics, surviving domestic violence, and the healing of family trauma. It's about choices parents make and how those choices affect their children and everyone else around them. And, It's also about secrets kept and the far-reaching, dysfunctional effects those secrets have on families. Finally, it's about LOVE. The love between mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, love between women, sisters and friends, husbands and wives and fathers and their daughters.