{"product_id":"2940012939821","title":"Menyone's Journey to the Red Carpet","description":"\"Based on a true story, Menyone's Journey to the Red Carpet presents an escape-from-the-ghetto story. It is a searing, liberation-from-poverty tale, stretched to its richest potential by steeping the narrative in full bodied heart and soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA true-grit, right-stuff, celebrity-bound mother flees the surrounding bondage of chronic, never-ending poverty and all its inherent despair. With her autistic son, Menyone Deveaux slogs through racist barriers, dodges worthless men, slips away from cult-driven tormentors, makes it in the most ruthless of all industries, achieves celebrity, maintains her wholesome, good-heartedness--and all while raising her special-needs son. Menyone's outstanding triumph over abysmal odds will open your eyes to the torment so many women cope with every day and inspire you at the same time \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMenyone's life takes a tragic detour from her destiny to walk on the red carpet to a dark and perilous journey into an evil place with a controlling and vicious man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis exceptional actress\/writer\/producer who wrote, produced and starred in April's Fools, a story loosely based on many stories of young women chasing a dream in LA, has been through the fire and emerged a stronger, more enlightened and endlessly creative artist who hopes to use her own struggles to inspire, empower and encourage others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in Chicago, Deveaux can't remember a time when she didn't want to share her extraordinary talents. Then her father died too early when she was a teen. That gave her the motivation to try and stay focused.\"","brand":"Publish America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48797223616752,"sku":"2940012939821","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012939821_p0.jpg?v=1770323947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012939821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}