{"product_id":"life-and-how-to-live-alan-ritch-9798889257820","title":"Life and How to Live It: Volume one: Begin the Begin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a city built on survival, one young boy learns the cost of staying alive-and what it takes to finally start living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhiladelphia in the 1980s was no place for the soft-hearted. For Chaz Holesworth, childhood meant dodging gangs, addiction, and silence after slammed doors. His father's world ran on heroin, his mother's on holy fear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaught between two extremes, sin and salvation, Chaz learned early on how to disappear: keep your head down, don't ask questions, and pray someone notices you anyway.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut everything changed the day he discovered music. In R.E.M., Tori Amos, and Nirvana, he hears something no sermon ever offered: truth, raw and imperfect. As his home life spiraled and his faith fractured, those lyrics became lifelines, every note pulling him closer to the one thing he never had: his own identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the noise outside becomes louder than the voice inside?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr when loyalty to broken people starts to break you too?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinching and darkly funny, Life and How to Live It: Volume One is more than a coming-of-age memoir: It's a portrait of grit, grief, poverty, and the fragile beauty of hope born from chaos. Chaz Holesworth's story captures the pulse of Philadelphia's rough-edged streets and the soundtrack that kept him alive as he battled lost faith, family dysfunction, and his father's addiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who's ever grown up in the wreckage of someone else's choices, Chaz's story is proof that you can still build something beautiful from the debris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Ritch,Chaz Holesworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798889257820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorrance Publishing Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Alan Ritch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874394190079,"sku":"9798889257820","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-and-how-to-live-alan-ritch-9798889257820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}