{"product_id":"beyond-all-sense-and-reason-9798985318920","title":"Beyond All Sense and Reason","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt's not so easy being colored, is it?\" I asked him.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJackie half-smiled at my remark.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Nope,\" he said. \"It's not. Not always. Not every day.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife can be complicated when you're a fifteen year-old white male, with eight siblings, a twin sister, a best friend who's African American, and a racist girlfriend who's the daughter of an arrogant, hot-tempered member of the Ku Klux Klan. Especially if you're growing up in 1963, the Civil Rights era, in Birmingham, Alabama, a place once widely known as the \u003cem\u003eMost Segregated City in America\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the hometown of Mickey McQuade, his twin sister Marti, and Mickey's best friend Jackie Thomas, ordinary teenagers living in extraordinary times, forced to confront an unstable, hate-laden, and sometimes violent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeyond All Sense and Reason\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut novel of Mike Diccicco, award-winning Philadelphia ad copywriter turned author, someone who grew up during the sixties in Birmingham, who lived through a time of anger, bigotry and tumult, and who still remembers the heroic people and historic moments that changed American society forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mi-Bet Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534025101586,"sku":"9798985318920","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5deee7e4-03b7-4f7a-bcda-41b2352fc2e3.jpg?v=1731418728","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-all-sense-and-reason-9798985318920","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}