{"product_id":"black-cracker-josh-alan-friedman-9781943444991","title":"Black Cracker","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Alan Friedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943444994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943444991\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 11\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Josh Alan Friedman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46136083054847,"sku":"9781943444991","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cfb00dd-5120-41fe-85fa-1fcfe669b0d9.jpg?v=1726415631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-cracker-josh-alan-friedman-9781943444991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}