{"product_id":"dont-let-me-die-in-j-a-marzzan-9781948598026","title":"Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland: The 3-D Life of Eddie Loperena","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard lawyer Eddie Loperena's Newyorican life in \"the country I was offered.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrought to New York from Puerto Rico when he was seven, Eddie Loperena grew up dreaming of returning to his island paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he approaches forty, the loss of his wife and his business partner have landed Eddie at a crossroads, so he closes his legal practice when he gets a call from his estranged boyhood friend Carlos, now a well-known drug dealer. Carlosextracts a favor from Eddie to hold two suitcases full of \"valuable papers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurviving a vindictive D.A.'s threat to prosecute, citywide rumors that he has disappeared with his friend's illicit money, and a media circus intent to cast the complex situation into a two-dimensional context, Eddie decides to write the third dimension of a tragicomic satire of the seventies, of the island of his birth that cast him adrift, and of his minority membership in \"the country I was offered.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. A. Marzán\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948598027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948598026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Books Publishing (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"J. A. Marzán","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486474219775,"sku":"9781948598026","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7412d1ca-9339-46bf-951a-1f113cf88913.jpg?v=1778055621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dont-let-me-die-in-j-a-marzzan-9781948598026","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}