Chapter 1 — Fifty Thousand Reasons

A Tuesday. A text message. A beauty salon where nothing stays secret.It's 8:47 on a Tuesday morning. Cami Banks is in her salon, The Peach Crown, doing what she does best. And then a text arrives from Monica Wilson. It reads, simply: 'I need a community voice on the arts panel. You're it. Be there Thursday at 6. No is not an option.'Now, Cami's receptionist Trina, twenty-six years old, the best front desk manager the salon has ever had, and constitutionally incapable of sugarcoating anything, reads the text and says what we're all thinking: 'You love this kind of thing.'The thing is — Cami does. But she won't say so.The arts panel is for a mural competition. A fifty-thousand-dollar commission for a wall in the Mulberry Gateway, the most politically significant development corridor in the new city. And the woman who's been sitting in Cami's salon chair since 1987? Ms. Earline Washington? She already knows about it.She says: 'Somebody's getting fifty thousand dollars and somebody else is going to be very upset about it. That's all a competition ever is.' And then she adds: 'You should go. You'll see things they don't want you to see.'When a woman who has been reading people in a beauty salon for forty years tells you something like that, you listen.Next episode: we meet the woman catering the finalist reception, and we learn that a parking lot can tell you everything you need to know about power."A fifty-thousand-dollar mural. Eight artists. One wall. And already, something doesn't add up."Get the book for the full story at  https://TheHousewivesOfGwinnett.com

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