The Viviane Diary is an intricate literary web of romance, tragic loss, Hip Hop, superstition, peer pressure and greed. Its author, Fatoumata Manjang, a well traveled 17-year-old girl, took to fiction writing at age 14 to illuminate the highs and lows of the globalized society and inspire its young members to challenge themselves to high ideals. In The Viviane Diary, Detroit-born Mike and Viviane move from their envied college romance in Iowa to a turbulent marital relationship in Miami that eventually claims Viviane's life on the third birthday of their daughter Lori and a day after sharing her ordeal with a mysterious old lady at a waterfall. Mike, a Florida political heavyweight, elects not to remarry but at age 16, Lori suddenly marries a 19-year-old "stranger" during a summer trip to Atlanta with school friends, breaking Mike's heart. Few days after the bare bones wedding, her husband Maric whose father had been poisoned by his gold-digger second wife and was fighting for his dear life in hospital, dumps Lori. Then she finds vital answers in the eye-popping contents of her late mother's diary. Michigan-based Emmy Award winning filmmaker and TV producer Tony Mottley says the book "is like a love boat on the stormy sea of fate. It is a good read and I recommend it." Senior newspaper editor and author Bankole Thompson opines that the book "reveals tempestuous and complex difficulties that come from life's choices." Author and ExportZoom.com founder C. P. Eze calls it "a didactic work that should be required reading in high schools" while university assistant professor and author Dr. Williams Emeka Obiozor describes it as "a teen thriller.a suspense-filled story." For her part, Iowabased award-winning humanitarian Ms Falanga Zana Sula describes The Viviane Diary as mirroring "the many challenges and struggles of today's youth . a good literary gift from a remarkably gifted teenager."