{"product_id":"finding-my-way-in-westport-raymond-c-marra-9781972495148","title":"Finding My Way in Westport: A Memoir of Discipline, Rebellion and Resilience","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Westport, Connecticut, in the 1960s and 1970s, everything looked settled from the outside. Expectations were clear. Conformity was assumed. And a boy who could not quite fit the shape of either made his way through a world that did not know what to do with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaymond Marra grew up between two powerful and contradictory forces. A father who was brilliant, intellectually exacting, and emotionally out of reach. A mother who was fiercely independent, restless beneath the life she had been given, and gradually withdrawing from the home she was supposed to anchor. Between them, Raymond and his siblings navigated a household that felt increasingly unpredictable, searching for solid ground that shifted whenever they thought they had found it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside that house, the pressure took different forms but carried the same weight. Bullied, alienated, and quietly determined to understand his own place in a world that offered no clear answers, Raymond began building something in the space where belonging should have been. Not certainty. Not comfort. A particular kind of resilience that only forms under that specific kind of pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat resilience would eventually carry him through decades in enterprise sales, senior leadership, and some of the most demanding professional environments imaginable. But Finding My Way in Westport is not a book about that career. It is a book about where that person came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a memoir about a childhood that asked too much and explained too little, about a family shaped by contradiction and quiet unraveling, and about the long journey toward understanding who you are when the world you grew up in stops defining you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who has ever tried to make sense of a difficult childhood, struggled to find their place in the world, or discovered that resilience often grows from the very experiences they wished they could leave behind, this book will feel deeply familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond C. Marra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1972495143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781972495148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Raymond C. Marra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Raymond C. Marra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659831554303,"sku":"9781972495148","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/finding-my-way-in-westport-raymond-c-marra-9781972495148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}