Vanny Goodfella
2026-11-02
The Slim Goodie, The Baddie & The Ugly — by Vanny Goodfella. Three little girls. One lunch table. One pact: together, whatever it takes. Malaysia Sosa — the Slim Goodie — runs Harlem from 145th and St. Nicholas, cold, charming, and tired of dancing for money that never stays. Mercedes Lee Chan — the Baddie — the ex-prom queen moving millions on Wall Street while her own life sits three payments behind. Ebony Muhammad — the one they called Ugly — born into the system, homeless on the Lower East Side, and sharper on a computer than anyone who ever overlooked her. Torn apart in high school, fate sits them back down together over THC slices at Eat N Get High Pizza in Hell's Kitchen. Broke, fed up, and done waiting on a world that gave them nothing, the sisters build their own escort company — and underneath it, an empire built on stolen identities, plastic, pawn shops, luxury condos, and ghost guns printed off the grid. For one golden run, three abandoned kids finally have everything. But empires built on other people's names leave footprints — and when the complaints reach the police, the table that swore to never split has to decide what "together" really costs. They got money together. Now they'll die together. A raw, unfiltered New York street novel about sisterhood, hunger, and the price of getting it by any means — from the author of The Jump Off Era.
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