Tahira Chloe Mahdi aka “99” is back with the deliciously wild This Is Not How It Was Supposed to Go.
BALTIMORE, MD— An unemployed 32-year-old moves back home determined to find a job and a summer fling, but her suburban adventure soon spins wildly out of control. Welcome to Tahira Chloe Mahdi’s explosive return to fiction writing, 22 years after her first release God Laughs, Too became a bestseller in Baltimore and Washington, DC area bookstores.
Since her groundbreaking debut in 2001, Mahdi has obtained her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in psychology and has recently been working as a community psychologist and adjunct professor. “I deleted my Twitter account last April, determined to finally write a book based on my dissertation research,” Mahdi says, “but instead, I found myself channeling these fun, naughty escapades.”
The title This Is Not How It Was Supposed to Go — and its untidy cover design — is a comment on the author’s writing process, as well as a general statement on the main character’s chaotic life. This book is certainly not for the pearl clutchers. While much of fiction these days foregrounds the isms and phobias of society, Mahdi opts for entertainment purposes only with a spicy dose of sex, mischief, mystery, and family drama. In this unflinching tale, mothers who judge their daughters hide secrets of their own, and the past always comes back to kick some ass.
This Is Not How It Was Supposed to Go
Published by: Tuff Crowd Conglomerate | ISBN: 978-0-9740591-3-6
Available at: Barnes & Noble and Amazon
Tahira Chloe Mahdi is a writer of books, screenplays, and entertainment blogs at DCBrand99.com and TMOTTGoGo.com. She has also been a radio/TV/web personality, broadcasting school instructor, video vixen, and college professor. Getting her PhD was almost as cool as performing the intro on the first all-woman go-go rap song “A Pocketful of Dymes” and having an actor portray her in the documentary TMOTTGoGo Inside the Pocket. She has neighbors, family, and community in Baltimore City and in P.G. County.