{"product_id":"black-cracker-josh-alan-friedman-9780615354170","title":"Black Cracker","description":"South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on \"Lawrence Welk,\" the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - \"a memoir you can't accuse of lies.\" Center stage in the unflinching and frequently hilarious funhouse tour of Friedman's Long Island boyhood is a rogues' gallery that includes Bobo, precocious third-grade dropout and boy prince of the ghetto; his bumbling (and alarmingly potent) ne'er-do-well Uncle Limpy; Mumsy, the smelliest shoeshine boy in Penn Station; Mrs. O'Leary, the menacing Irish nanny; her son, Drake, an etiquette-obsessed, switchblade-totin' clammer overwhelmed by the tides of racial progress; and the impoverished Wilshires, the bone-white, nigger-hatin'-est crackers in town. At once heartbreaking and hysterically funny, BLACK CRACKER delivers a fearless account of adventures in the now-forgotten poor Black shantytowns of Long Island, exploring the singular ugliness of racism, the intrigue of janitorial whodunits, the tragic limits of friendship, and the inexplicable seductive powers of croco-print footwear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Alan Friedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615354173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615354170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wyatt Doyle Books\/New Texture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Josh Alan Friedman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44583722975487,"sku":"9780615354170","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9988c5f-5413-4a4c-9a2c-fb0e69745cb0.jpg?v=1701883205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-cracker-josh-alan-friedman-9780615354170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}