Tamika Banks

The Last Greyhound: a Young Woman's Journey to Self Identity and Love Tamika Banks

A young woman's journey to self-identity and love, THE LAST GREYHOUND(c) chronicles true events of a young woman's quest for acceptance. Believing her conception should have been her death, Lillie Jenkins' physical features separated her from everyone around her. After discovering the identity of her real father, Lillie begins to process the constant rejection, homelessness and abandonment she has battled with most of her young adult life. Fiendishly chasing after a fantasy mother-daughter relationship crisscrossing the United States; subconsciously the greyhound bus becomes both an escape from her hard realities and a transitional source for a better life. Lillie hopes that each trip is a chance at self-identity, love and acceptance but quickly enters a fight of family deceit, mental/verbal abuse, hidden secrets, lust, neglect and endless fantasies. THE LAST GREYHOUND(c) is an honest journey of a woman born lost, yet determined to be found.