{"product_id":"stranger-in-my-own-story-erik-mohn-9781558969834","title":"Stranger in My Own Story: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA raw and profound debut that chronicles coming of age as a transracial adoptee. A necessary addition to the modern canon of literary memoirs that explore race, identity, and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErik Mohn was raised to believe that love was enough. America taught him otherwise. Born to a Black mother he never knew and adopted by a white family in small-town Massachusetts, Mohn grew up cherished yet unprepared for what his skin would mean in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStranger in My Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e traces Mohn's coming of age as he searches not just for identity but for language--words for grief, for anger, for belonging, for the silence left by a mother he lost and a father he could never quite reach. He pieces together meaning from what's available and hip-hop becomes his first mirror and his first vocabulary--a survival guide passed through speakers and headphones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the cost of his cultural displacement begins to surface, Mohn is forced to confront the wounds he's been carrying. Those reckonings come to a head at Howard University--\"The Mecca\"--where the self he assembled in isolation is tested in community, challenged in relationship, and slowly transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the lyrical pulse of hip-hop and a moral clarity forged in lived experience, \u003ci\u003eStranger in My Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate memoir of transracial adoption and a universal story about what it costs to grow up without a mirror--and what it takes to build one anyway. Mohn's story mirrors the nation's: unfinished, fragile, and still reaching toward wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Mohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1558969837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558969834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Skinner House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Erik Mohn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852702560511,"sku":"9781558969834","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stranger-in-my-own-story-erik-mohn-9781558969834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}