{"product_id":"the-beautiful-struggle-ta-nehisi-coates-9780385527460","title":"The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exceptional father-son story \u003cb\u003efrom the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eabout the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence--and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack--and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Struggle \u003c\/i\u003efollows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father's steadfast efforts--assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present--to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father's generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I grew up in a Maryland that lay years, miles and worlds away from the one whose summers and sorrows Ta-Nehisi Coates evokes in this memoir with such tenderness and science; and the greatest proof of the power of this work is the way that, reading it, I felt that time, distance and barriers of race and class meant nothing. That in telling his story he was telling my own story, for me.\"\u003cb\u003e--Michael Chabon, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Yiddish Policemen's Union\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026amp; Clay\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip hop generation.\"\u003cb\u003e--Walter Mosley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ta-Nehisi Coates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385527462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385527460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e512008 \/ Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir (Adapted for Young Adults)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurston\/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist","brand":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053847474431,"sku":"9780385527460","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfad5443-73ff-4475-a8b8-ad6e4f0d7ec9.jpg?v=1685026572","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beautiful-struggle-ta-nehisi-coates-9780385527460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}