the coldest winter ever sequel life after death

“I don’t think those two voices can really mix. “I want to keep my voice, the Sister Souljah voice, distinct from the Winter Santiaga voice,” she said. The 57-year-old married mother of one said had no desires to self-narrate the book. So Nia Long I thought was a beautiful choice to read the audiobook.” “And if you can get all the women in the house to agree on another woman, that’s the one you go with. “When I asked my biological sisters … everybody agreed,” Sister Souljah shared. The Bronx native performed a sort of litmus test among her siblings to see if she was on the right track with her choice for the three-time NAACP Image Award-winning actress. Somebody who’s considered beautiful, somebody’s who’s considered soft enough and cool enough, not a pushover but still sweet. Somebody’s whose voice is soothing and sultry. “It has to be somebody that the men and the women loves. “ sent me 15 names and some of the people on the list had won Grammys and all kinds of awards and accolades, and I was like but for ‘The Coldest Winter Ever’ this is irrelevant it has to be somebody that the hood loves,” she revealed. Sister Souljah, an avid fan of audiobooks - and former recording artist, knew that the run of the mill of usual suspects of book readers wouldn’t cut it for this project. The tome - published via Emily Bestler’s Atria/Simon & Schuster imprint - also chronicles Santiaga’s mother’s death and her young sister’s growth.Īcclaimed actress Nia Long, who has developed a cult-like fan base through roles in modern Black cinema classics such as “Boyz N’ the Hood,” “Soul Food,” “Love Jones,” and the “Best Man” movies, was tapped to narrate the book.

The original story of Winter Santiaga, a drug kingpin’s daughter, laid the blueprint for the cottage industry that would later be called “street lit.” For the sequel, Sister Souljah (nee Lisa Williamson) said she wrote at “the top of excellence” in revisiting the protagonist’s life after she returns from a lengthy prison stint. It’s prequel, “The Coldest Winter Ever,” which was published in 1999 also made the coveted New York Times (Paperback Trade Fiction) list for the first time ever - 22 years after it was first published. “Life After Death” has become an instant success following its March 2 release.

The former self-proclaimed “raptivist” and groundbreaking author’s long-awaited sequel to her breakthrough novel has debuted atop the Hardcover Fiction list of the New York Times Bestsellers for the week of March 21. Sister Souljah’s latest page-turner is a No.

The coldest winter ever sequel life after death