Chocolate is Better is a novel that shares the love, joy, and pain
that black girls experience growing up, while learning to love oneself
and gain self-confidence. The story offers funny, amusing, and laughable
insights into how black girls motivate themselves against the truth
about being a black girl in real society.Regardless of being young or
old, readers will connect and relate to this bittersweet chocolate
adventure that these girls partake in as they discover their full
ability, strength, and motivation to win over the world's eyes. You will
laugh as you reveal and recognize that you too have perceived being a
chocolate girl. Linda Wilson McDowell is an African American author,
minister, wife, mother, and grandmother who knows the devastating
effects of grief, loss, emotional abuse, and poverty. As a child, her
imagination guided her as she visualized becoming a star, being liked as
a "little chocolate girl," and winning the affection of everyone around
her. Childhood dreams of success came to a halt when she experienced
motherhood at an early age and her goals became seemingly unattainable.
Beating the odds, she graduated from Fresno City College, and organized
the annual women's conference "Women Empowering Women Ministry," which
emphasizes vision and a purpose-driven life for women in prison and in
drug and alcohol programs. Today she presents inspirational talks to
men, women, and children by motivating them to attain a higher level
standard of living than thought possible. Her inspirational words will
address every woman's need to be loved, accepted, and supported. Her
spirituality, love for God, passion, and drive has made her achieve all
the things she ever dreamed.
