{"product_id":"the-boy-we-created-sean-d-clark-9798181941779","title":"The Boy We Created: A Modern Frankenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonsters are not born. They are created.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-year-old Michael Torres has spent most of his life being told who he is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTroublemaker. Failure. Delinquent. Monster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a violent fight outside a small-town convenience store lands Michael in handcuffs, the town of Cedar Ridge believes it already knows the truth. To them, his arrest is not a tragedy. It is proof.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut retired teacher Eleanor Reed remembers a different boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe remembers the quiet child who loved the stars, asked impossible questions, and once believed broken things could still belong to something. As the community gathers to decide Michael's future, Eleanor begins asking the question no one else wants to face: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen did Michael become the boy they were all so ready to condemn?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the moral question at the heart of Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Boy We Created\u003c\/b\u003e is a contemporary social drama about poverty, abandonment, education, labeling, and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiece by piece, the novel reveals how a child can be shaped by the very people and systems meant to protect him, without excusing the harm he causes or ignoring the choices he makes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmotional, timely, and unflinching, \u003cb\u003eThe Boy We Created\u003c\/b\u003e asks what happens when a community fears the very person it helped create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean D. Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181941779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Sean D. Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084246163711,"sku":"9798181941779","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-boy-we-created-sean-d-clark-9798181941779","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}