Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Up And Coming Book

Mona Fay Cartman is an African American girl who is taunted by her fearful imaginations, bullied repeatedly by a classmate and lives in a shabby house owned by a crooked Land Lord. At the age of six, Mona and her family moved to the town of Mulberry, fulfilling her father’s dreams, while for Mona cultural changes became a living nightmare. Although her life was based on numerology, her understanding of math was “trick-bla-ometry.” She attended church regularly, but where was her faith?

Mona’s greatest fears spun her to a life-long paralyzing sleep disorder that her mother called “The Witch.” Just the mention of the most simple childhood phrases seemed to scare her to death. A new revelation leads her to the paralyzing truth.