{"product_id":"9780999516416","title":"Stealing: Life In America: A Collection of Essays","description":"In this beautifully crafted, incisive collection, readers will admire Michelle Cacho Negrete's determination and fierce desire to transcend her early Brooklyn ghetto roots--particularly her sense of herself as a displaced outsider. What's also impressive about Stealing is not only how candid and open the author is, but how vividly she describes this complex human struggle. \u003cbr\u003eMichael Steinberg -Author, Still Pitching, 2003 ForeWord Magazine\/Independent Press Memoir of the Year \u003cp\u003e\"Michelle writes with grace and clear-eyed, unsentimental vision.\"\u003cbr\u003eSy Safransky, Editor, Sun Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cacho-Negrete champions the poor, the marginalized...Throughout this profound, compelling collection, she preserves the vanishing past with a hard-hitting yet lush remembrance.\" \u003cbr\u003eLee Hope Betcher, Editor Solstice Literary Magazine, author Horse fever\u003cbr\u003e\"With crisp, confident prose, Michelle explores the intricacies of our world in essays simultaneously unique and universal. A book to be read many times.\"\u003cbr\u003eBarry Lyga - Best Selling New York Times author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The America we face in these timely essays is often poor, frequently unjust, sometimes heartbreaking - and always illuminated by the author's fearless truths, keen insights, and fighting spirit.\" \u003cbr\u003eKrista Bremer - prize winner lecturer and author of My Tender Struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is the power of the written word: Alone in his room, the reader feels a strengthened connection to all of humanity.\" \u003cbr\u003eGin Mackey, Author of DISAPPEAR OUR DEAD and SUDDENLY SPYING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These stories grab hold and won't let you go. They will change you.\"\u003cbr\u003eAnne B. Gass, lecturer, author - Voting Down The Rose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although these are separate essays, they are linked by these consistent themes and form in themselves an engrossing and beautifully-written memoir.\"\u003cbr\u003eJenny Doughty - President, Maine Poets Society, author-Sending Bette Davis to The Plumber\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adelaide Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029977415920,"sku":"9780999516416","price":22.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780999516416_p0.jpg?v=1763947273","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780999516416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}