{"product_id":"9780986252143","title":"The Juke","description":"Who is a man when he loses everything?\u003cp\u003eFire destroys and fire creates...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe wonder, don't we, at the people we see on the streets? The homeless. Unfortunate souls. Addicts. Violent felons. What compels them? How did they end up there? How does a person find himself holding a gun and committing a crime? Shooting heroin from a dirty needle? We avoid them, turning our faces away from the sight of them, hoping the courts will warehouse them so we are safe in our middle class lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Joseph is successful by any measure. Family. Career. Church. He has what anybody would want. All that ends one night, and his life takes a new direction...a drastic course change. Facing the fires of life's trials, he is consumed by the heat...so he flees justice. He becomes a new man wearing a new mask. But who will he be? How will he adjust to the new lives he finds himself living? How will he care for the ones he loves?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Juke is a tragedy, exploring Frank's descent from \"success\" to the darkest corners of society. He finds himself living places he could never have imagined. Along the way he builds new love, a new family, and a new life. Will he survive the ghosts of his past? Is he locked in a pattern of self-destruction?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farfalla Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49836381569264,"sku":"9780986252143","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986252143","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}