{"product_id":"gaikokujin-the-story-takuan-amaru-9784908556012","title":"Gaikokujin - The Story: Hip Hop, Race, and Pursuing the American Dream(Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a spiritual rags to riches adventure. I have been blessed to live a 'storybook life' but not in any glamorous way. Writing this book has allowed me to examine my role as a person of color-which I refer to as 'melanin-rich'-in a society which has proven itself to be hostile toward non-Caucasian people. Because this is part memoir, part historical treatise, and part survivor's guide, it is my intention to stretch the parameters of a conventional novel. Book 1 of this Trilogy is told through the eyes of a confused child. A stranger in my own home, like so many neglected children, I found a surrogate family in the street-mainly at our neighborhood basketball courts. After learning how to 'make a dollar out of fifteen cents, ' I was headed down a tried-and-true path for disaster until, ironically, a Beast and a Serpent came to my rescue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Takuan Amaru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 4908556016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9784908556012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Takuan Amaru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.66d","brand":"Takuan Amaru","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079487713535,"sku":"9784908556012","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7292f831-4272-4792-b561-bb3ff2162be0.jpg?v=1685481425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gaikokujin-the-story-takuan-amaru-9784908556012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}