{"product_id":"stealing-green-mangoes-sunil-dutta-9780062795854","title":"Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA memoir--written in the wake of a cancer diagnosis--that zeroes in on the crux between two brothers: one who became an LAPD officer, and the other a terrorist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunil Dutta is a twenty-year veteran of the LAPD. Before that, he was a biologist at the University of California and a translator of classic Indian poetry. Before that, he was a destitute refugee, one of so many uprooted by the genocidal violence surrounding the Partition of India. Back then, he had a brother. Back then, they were children together, chasing whatever fun and solace they could find in impossible conditions. Sunil looked up to Raju. He admired his strength, his character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaju took a different path. He was arrested, he fled the law, he became a fugitive. He became a terrorist. Then he became a father--and then a murderer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer later in life, Sunil urgently wanted to understand what choices had led he and his brother down such radically different paths. In \u003cem\u003eStealing Green Mangoes, \u003c\/em\u003e Dutta takes us from his family home in Rajasthan to America, to France, to the streets of southeastern Los Angeles, homing in on the questions that tore him and Raju apart: Can you outgrow the madness that made you? Can you make peace with the ghosts of your past? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir with sweeping, spiritual ambitions, \u003cem\u003eStealing Green Mangoes\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a man who pushed back against the forces that captured his own brother and built a compassionate, meaningful life in a broken world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunil Dutta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062795856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062795854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Bourdain\/Ecco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2019 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019 pg. 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019 pg. 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/18\/2019","brand":"Sunil Dutta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001074827519,"sku":"9780062795854","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea10bc9f-949c-4349-8ad6-1a8fc48fea02.jpg?v=1751599993","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stealing-green-mangoes-sunil-dutta-9780062795854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}