{"product_id":"9781439170892","title":"Take This Man: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Books of 2014\u003cbr\u003e One of NBC News’s 10 Best Latino Books of 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom PEN\/Hemingway award winner Brando Skyhorse comes this stunning, heartfelt memoir in the vein of \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Bar\u003c\/i\u003e, the true story of a boy’s turbulent childhood growing up with five stepfathers and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of letters to Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a stranger in prison for armed robbery, Maria reinvents herself and her young son as American Indians in the colorful Mexican-American neighborhood of Echo Park, California. There Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be over thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth of his own past, when a surprise discovery online leads him to his biological father at last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an acclaimed, prize-winning novelist celebrated for his “indelible storytelling” (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), this extraordinary literary memoir captures a son’s single-minded search for a father wherever he can find one, and is destined to become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026418221296,"sku":"9781439170892","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439170892_p0.jpg?v=1769904561","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439170892","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}