Customer Reviews
Brief, Blunt, & Honest. 
2008-10-12
I like this memoir for the pragmatic, unpretentious voice of the author. I wanted more detail, but I was in love with her curt style. I also appreciate how she leaves nearly all judgement and conclusion up to the reader rather than trying to hawk us a heap of saccharine pap. She's not asking to be liked, justified, deified, forgiven, nothing. The story is just told in an endearingly matter-of-fact way. I took off one star for the overall short length. What can I say, I liked it and wanted more!
Wired Grace 2008-10-07
I really liked this book. I have been a fan of The Wire since day one and Pearson does a good job on the show. When I found out that she was writing a book I was hesitant. I didn't want to hear confessions of murder and the likes and I wanted to preserve my feelings for the show. I am pleased to say that this book was nothing like I thought it would be. I was captured and held prisoner by this book and I read it in a weekend. You never really know what people have on their hearts and this book is a reminder of that. Pearson had it rough, but still not as rough as some. Pearson at least had people in her life that loved her genuinely and who wanted to see her do good. Mistakes are mistakes and we all pay for them be it in the bricks and mortar of a prison cell or the prison of our minds. I am so glad that she wrote this book and hope that it has helped someone make better choices. I'm not a drug dealer, but it touched me and made me think.
VERY GOOD BOOK 
2008-08-25
I LOVED THE BOOK.... I LOVE SNOOP. IT WAS VERY GOOD I READ IT IN 2 DAYS...
SNOOP I WILL SEE YOU AROUND.....WINK
Bodymore, Murdaland 2008-08-07
Where the boundary lines of art and life intersect stands Snoop. A mind-grabbing account for even the unfamiliar reader becomes riveting to a fan of "THE WIRE". Watching the show I had the feeling Snoop the actress was too authentic to have been strictly portraying a fictional character born in the pages of a script. Her auto-bio piece confirmed what I'd suspected.
Thinking as a fan, I was somewhat disappointed by the books length - who could blame me for wanting to know more? However, the quality of the storytelling, done in the understated manner of many a street player that's secure in who they are and what they've done, gives depth to the words. Making length a non-issue when all is said and done.
Snoop being "discovered" by Michael K. Williams/OMAR the way she was is the ultimate testimony to the philosophy that fate is only the beginning of good fortune. Being in the right place at the right time isn't enough. When the window of opportunity opens you also have to be prepared to jump through -- something Felicia Pearson has done both feet first!
Like a fiend in "Hamsterdam" that picked up the needle, once I started the book I couldn't put it down. Finished it up in one sitting on a Saturday morning. If you decide to pick up this book, don't have plans for a while; you'll be like "Old-Face Andre" or "Little Kevin" were in one of those abandoned buildings... hemmed up with no hope of getting free.
One!
Amazing Grace saved her 2008-07-05
GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT is the striking autobiography of Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, star of the critically acclaimed HBO series, The Wire. In the short but poignant memoir written with David Ritz, Snoop recants her upbringing in the tough streets of Baltimore, the place that both raised and almost killed her.
Born with cross-eyes and crack in her system thanks to a drug-addicted mother, Snoop had much to overcome in the first moments of her life. She was no more than three pounds at birth, but surpassed the grim expectations placed on her. After years in foster care, she was taken in by a loving older couple, Cora and Levi Pearson. They offered her a good home with Christian values and worked to make sure Snoop had a better life.
By her pre-teens, Snoop had her first taste as runner whose quiet strength took her far in the game. At 12 years old, she was witnessing murders, drug deals, shakedowns, and way too much for a girl her age. One of her mentors, a man known as "Uncle," took Snoop under his wing and tried to get her abandon her dangerous behavior, but it was too little too late when Snoop ended in the Jessup State Penitentiary at 14 for murder.
While there she turned her life around, gaining a new appreciation for doing the right thing. With Uncle's help, she left there feeling like she could do anything - and quickly found her good intentions weren't worth much. That is, until she met Michael K. Williams from The Wire, landing the role of a lifetime with no acting experience.
The rest is history.
Snoop's story is compelling and heart wrenching. You see the innocence of a child wanting her mother and a heart growing cold from rejection. You also glimpse a woman truly turning her life around, trying to obtain the grace after midnight she found in prison. And you also witness a woman true to her sexuality, being openly gay all her life.
For that, she should be applauded.
Excellent 2008-05-11
While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what's most remarkable about "Snoop" is what she has overcome in her life. Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore. Those streets are among the toughest in the world, but Snoop was tougher. The runt of the ghetto showed an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence and thrived as a baby gangsta until she landed in Jessup state penitentiary after killing a woman in self-defense. There she rebelled violently against the system, and it was only through the cosmic intervention of her mentor, Uncle Loney, that she turned her life around. A couple of years ago, Snoop was discovered in a nightclub by one of The Wire's cast members and quickly recruited to be one of television's most frightening and intriguing villians.
While the story of coming up from the hood has been told by Antwone Fisher and Chris Gardner, among others, Snoop's tale goes far deeper into The Life than any previous books. And like Mary Karr's story, Snoop's is a woman's story from a fresh point of view. She defied traditional conventions of gender and sexual preference on the hardest streets in America and she continues to do so in front of millions of viewers on TV.
She did the best job she could with the hand she was dealt. 2008-05-08
A painfully honest but depressing look at what it is like to grow up under the worst conditions. The slum didn't grind her up but, until the wire, she caused grief for society. Help, to her, came from unexpected places and a wonderful set of foster parents. It is a story that we, who grew up in kindness and a clean environment filled with good role models, should read.
Very fast reading 
2008-05-05
Felicia Pearson's memoir seems truthful, and she makes very little effort to put herself in a more attractive light. Surely her cowriter wrote a very large part of the book, but it consistently reads as her own voice. I think the book is worth buying, but most reader will finish it in well under two hours.
Grace after midnight 2008-05-03
This book was interesting, it told the story of "Snoops" life as a child and her life style as a young women, it told just how strong she is and was, also it was very touching. I read it in one day, it was interesting, it was her autobiography. If you watch the Wire and you are a fan of hers you should read the book.
Go Snoop! 2008-05-02
I brought this book a few months ago but kept putting it aside without even reading the first page. I decided to pick this book up today and could not put it down. This was a very easy book to read, and I read this book in one sitting. Snoop talked about her life as a crack addicted baby to her mom trying to sale her clothes for crack when she was just a little girl. I loved this book, and I am so glad that snoop made it to the top like she did. Snoop is real and everything she wrote in the book is real, so real you can feel it as you read. Good Snoop!
