Rabbit/Ms. Pat is okay now, but it took a lot to get her to where she is now: living in Indiana with her husband-who-has-a-legal job and their kids and working as a stand up comic. She grew up in Atlanta with a troubled mother and her four siblings. Her mom died young, and her sibs were victims of prison and crack. Williams, who had two kids by a 22-year-old by the time she was 15, somehow had a resilience and spark that kept her going. Her unusually visible ghostwriter cites Williams' perfect recall of the details of her life. I wish it were easier to tell, given how ghost? partner? writer Jeannine Amber makes it clear who did the actual writing, how much is support/amplification of Williams's voice and what is intervention. I assume stuff like

I knew from experience that next to jail the place with the highest concentration of trifling bitches was elementary school.

has to come straight from the comic or her comedy routine.

Listen to her on Marc Maron's podcast if you can tolerate white guy comedians interrupting Black women better than I can.