A look into the inner life of the inner city. A foray into the mind and heart of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, torn from her destiny because she dared to stand up and speak up for those who don't have a voice. A glimpse inside the hopeless hallways of New York City's failing public schools. When a high school protest turns bloody, the police turn on the innocent. Queen of Corona is the story of a Roza, who is running after a student protest she helped orchestrate ends in tragedy. She is ushered onto an airplane by her mother, headed back to the Old World - for the first time in her life. Her journey is both a way of escaping a seemingly dead-end existence and a chance at discovering a new way of being. It is a coming-of-age novel in a tumultuous time. It is a lesson on how fear is the most dangerous aspect of our Trumped-up existence.