Book Video Interview with Kishawnie Henry A.K.A. Billy Blasta, Author of Dark Paradise
- 2 years ago
ABOUT THE BOOK:
When there’s only darkness around, usually people will just succumb to the darkness, instead of finding a way out and into the light. That’s how the three young men decided to live their lives in author Kishawnie Henry’s new book, Dark Paradise. But will this be what life is just all about for them? Readers will find out as they leaf through the pages of this fictional novel based on true events.
The author invites readers to immerse in this book about three youths being raised in the housing projects of Paul M. Pearson Gardens. While facing their struggles of growing up in the Ghettos and adapting to the streets of the Virgin Islands, they become a product of their environment, where crime and violence are a normal part of their everyday lives. Money, guns, and drugs became their passion. With no positive influences for them to look up to, they follow and embrace the negativity that comes from the streets. Unfortunately, it’s a revolving cycle in the hood. Getting caught up in it is very easy, but the consequences that follow are severely hard.
This story is based in the era of the late ’80s and ’90s during the crack epidemic that plagued America and the effects it had on the Virgin Islands.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kishawnie Henry, aka Billy Blasta, was born and raised in the Virgin Islands. Growing up in the housing projects of Paul M. Pearson Gardens, aka the Ghettos, he became a product of his environment and was shot and paralyzed at the age of seventeen. Being removed from the physical aspects of the streets, he developed a passion for writing. With music being his first love, he wrote and produced several mixed tapes and albums before deciding to explore his talent in writing a book.
When there’s only darkness around, usually people will just succumb to the darkness, instead of finding a way out and into the light. That’s how the three young men decided to live their lives in author Kishawnie Henry’s new book, Dark Paradise. But will this be what life is just all about for them? Readers will find out as they leaf through the pages of this fictional novel based on true events.
The author invites readers to immerse in this book about three youths being raised in the housing projects of Paul M. Pearson Gardens. While facing their struggles of growing up in the Ghettos and adapting to the streets of the Virgin Islands, they become a product of their environment, where crime and violence are a normal part of their everyday lives. Money, guns, and drugs became their passion. With no positive influences for them to look up to, they follow and embrace the negativity that comes from the streets. Unfortunately, it’s a revolving cycle in the hood. Getting caught up in it is very easy, but the consequences that follow are severely hard.
This story is based in the era of the late ’80s and ’90s during the crack epidemic that plagued America and the effects it had on the Virgin Islands.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kishawnie Henry, aka Billy Blasta, was born and raised in the Virgin Islands. Growing up in the housing projects of Paul M. Pearson Gardens, aka the Ghettos, he became a product of his environment and was shot and paralyzed at the age of seventeen. Being removed from the physical aspects of the streets, he developed a passion for writing. With music being his first love, he wrote and produced several mixed tapes and albums before deciding to explore his talent in writing a book.