Omar oh Omar. Omar Tyree is one of my most favorite authors. See what I did there. I said "my most favorite authors" and not "my most favorite black authors". I love Tyree because he speaks the truth in his books and also about reading in African Americans and how sadly most of them won't read novels that is not as gritty or rough and hardcore as street novels. Omar Tyree does not write street novels, he write "urban classics"
Check the video. Tyree speaks on reading in African Americans and his upcoming movie on based on his book Leslie.
My favorite book from Tyree is Flyy Girl. I read it when I was 11 years old. I remember sharing it with my friends at the time. It is about a beautiful and sexy young girl named Tracy who plays with people and manipulates them and uses her beauty and figure to get whatever she wants. She matures early and sleeps with men older than her who sell drugs. After seeing her mom become addicted to drugs and starts to prostitute, Tracy realizes that she must change for the better so she won't end up like her mother. What I like about this book is that when Tracy realized how her life would turn out if she continued to lived the way that she did, she changed for the better and that shows real courage and strength, the kind that her mother lacked.
Tyree once said in his blog that he will not continue to write about the same drug-dealing, sex drived, gold-digging centered novels that the African American community has become addicted to reading and you go Tyree I would not write about that stuff either and if I did believe me my books would get five stars because yes it will possess the elements of street fiction but I can guarantee that is not all you will find and all the storylines would not be the same. No sir.
VERDICT: READ READ READ IT...YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO...SHOULD BE IN EVERY URBAN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASS.
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