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Hello everyone!

I recently created a new page to launch my literary career, and I'm excited to connect with all of you!

I'll be hosting contests from time to time, where dedicated followers of my page will have the chance to win free prizes!

Please like and follow my new page linked below, and engage with me regularly. Your support means a lot!

https://www.facebook.com/chaunaleatriciamikien

Chauna-lea T. Mikien Author & Singer 💫 Redefining the modern South
through grit, grace & rhythm.

🖋️ Contemporary Southern Fiction Author

🎶 R&B/Pop Musician

🎥 Versatile Actress

📍 Little Rock, Arkansas

Read, listen, & follow the journey:

➡️https://shorturl.at/gTSH7

(Okay, readers— I’m working on a future screenplay that I’d love to adapt into an indie film. Much of my writing draws loosely from my own life, and this story is no different. For now, I’m just testing the waters on social media with works in progress.)

Summer of ’97 follows fraternal twin sisters Felicia and Courtney, born in 1980 and separated at age four when two Black families from opposite ends of Little Rock, Arkansas, adopt them.

One grows up in a gated neighborhood with private schools and summer trips; the other is raised in the hood, learning early how to survive without safety nets. By the summer of 1997, both are seventeen and living lives they never chose.

When they finally meet, their reunion exposes buried resentment, class divides, and the cost of growing up apart—forcing them to decide whether sisterhood is something inherited, or something you fight to keep.