{"product_id":"9781416584179","title":"It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing","description":"Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir \u003ci\u003eAlways Running\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature.\u003cp\u003eHundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless classic, \u003ci\u003eAlways Running\u003c\/i\u003e, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long-awaited follow-up, \u003ci\u003eIt Calls You Back\u003c\/i\u003e is the equally harrowing story of Rodriguez starting over, at age eighteen, after leaving gang life—the only life he really knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with Rodriguez’s final stint in jail as a teenager and follows his struggle to kick heroin, renounce his former life, and search for meaningful work. He describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a father, and his difficulty leaving his rages and addictions completely behind. Even as he breaks with “la vida loca” and begins to discover success as a writer and an activist, Rodriguez finds that his past—the crimes, the drugs, the things he’d seen and done—has a way of calling him back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his oldest son is sent to prison for attempted murder, Rodriguez is forced to confront his shortcomings as a father, and to acknowledge how and why his own history is repeating itself, right before his eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply insightful and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eIt Calls You Back\u003c\/i\u003e is an odyssey through love, addiction, revolutions, and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touchstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047842824432,"sku":"9781416584179","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416584179_p0.jpg?v=1763727002","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416584179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}