{"product_id":"9781439129074","title":"The Harris Men","description":"RM Johnson's extraordinary debut is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death -- and the three sons he abandoned so many years before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer.\" Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his wife and three children twenty years earlier. Now, with a sudden and passionate determination to make his family whole again, Julius begins trying to find a way back to his sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaleb,\u003c\/b\u003e the youngest, struggling to support a son and make his way in a\u003cbr\u003erelentless world, couldn't care less about his own absentee father. Middle\u003cbr\u003eson \u003cb\u003eMarcus\u003c\/b\u003e can't abide even his father's memory, which gets in the way\u003cbr\u003eof his committing to the one woman who has turned his life around. And \u003cb\u003eAustin,\u003c\/b\u003e Julius' eldest child, so adores what he remembers of his father that he's following in his footsteps, abandoning his wife and children just\u003cbr\u003eas Julius had done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by RM Johnson's own fragile family history, \u003ci\u003eThe Harris Men\u003c\/i\u003e is his poignant exploration of the increasing problem of absentee fathers -- and of the compromises made by the families they leave behind. As the Harris men grapple with their fears and their choices, Johnson gets to the very heart of what it means to be a man.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123526910192,"sku":"9781439129074","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439129074_p0.jpg?v=1763756063","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439129074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}