Finally, 22 years later, Winter is back in “Life After Death,” out this week.
“But the character was always alive in my imagination,” Souljah said. She even planned to write a Ricky story (and still hopes to). So instead she wrote spinoffs: three books about Midnight, the handsome and capable lieutenant of Winter’s father, Ricky Santiaga, and one about Winter’s younger sister Porsche, who ends up in juvenile detention. There are real consequences to the things that happen in real life.” “Like ‘Ta-da! Here she is,’ and it’s all good. “I didn’t want to feed the hood a fantasy that going to prison is a joke or a cakewalk,” she said. “Quite naturally, the book company and everyone else expected me to write the sequel,” said Souljah by phone from the United Arab Emirates, where she had gone to find “peace of mind” and to finish a draft of the book’s long-awaited screen adaptation.īut because Winter Santiaga’s story had ended with a mandatory 15-year prison sentence, Souljah felt she had to wait until Winter’s time was served. “The Coldest Winter Ever” was one of the best-selling novels of 1999 and has since sold more than a million copies.
Its heroine, Winter Santiaga, the pampered daughter of a Brooklyn drug kingpin, uses her feminine wiles and hustler mentality to survive after her father’s empire suddenly comes crashing down. In 1999, Sister Souljah published her first novel, “The Coldest Winter Ever,” considered by some to be the mother of what’s been called urban or street fiction and its first classic. Author Sister Souljah published her new novel Life After Death in 2021.
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