{"product_id":"i-had-a-brother-once-a-poem-a-memoir-9780593134795","title":"I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant, genre-defying work--both memoir and epic poem--about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself.\"--Marlon James, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003emy father said\u003cbr\u003edavid has taken his own life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling book--when these words from his father open a chasm beneath his feet. \u003ci\u003eI Had a Brother Once\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of everything that comes after. In the shadow of David's inexplicable death, Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp. This is an expansive and deeply thoughtful poetic meditation on loss and a raw, darkly funny, human story of trying to create a ritual--of remembrance, mourning, forgiveness, and acceptance--where once there was a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Mansbach\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGo the F**k to Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels \u003ci\u003eRage Is Back\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAngry Black White Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the California Book Award), and a dozen other books, most recently the bestselling \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to the Jewish People\u003c\/i\u003e, co-written with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Mansbach wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix Original \u003ci\u003eBarry, \u003c\/i\u003e and his next feature film, \u003ci\u003eSuper High\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson, and Common, is forthcoming from New Line. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and on \u003ci\u003eThis American Life, The Moth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377961963794,"sku":"9780593134795","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_179cc3a1-9b91-4162-b00e-19518582e969.jpg?v=1728637141","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-had-a-brother-once-a-poem-a-memoir-9780593134795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}