Twelve-year-old lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in new orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is ma...Twelve-year-old lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in new orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is mama ya-ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future.