{"product_id":"9780812983166-1","title":"Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe idea to write to you was not an easy one.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot him.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have decided to give you a name.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am going to call you Marcus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With profound grace, brutal honesty, and devastating humor, Jerry McGill takes us on a dramatic and inspiring journey—from the streets of 1980s New York, where poverty and violence were part of growing up, to the challenges of living with a disability and learning to help and inspire others, to the long, difficult road to acceptance, forgiveness, and, ultimately, triumph.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI didn’t write this book for you, Marcus. I wrote this for those who endure.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThose who manage. Those who are determined to move on.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042123104496,"sku":"9780812983166","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812983166_p0.jpg?v=1763809327","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812983166-1","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}