{"product_id":"9781583488638","title":"A Clean Street'S A Happy Street","description":"\"To say McSherry has lived a 'hard knock' life is an understatement, but the Lehman High School teacher and Brio Award winner has crafted a Bronx version of \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e that resonates with hope, wit, and perseverance.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Derek Woods\u003c\/b\u003e, host of the television program, \u003ci\u003eBronx Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through a series of striking vignettes, \u003ci\u003eA Clean Street's A Happy Street: A Bronx Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful coming-of-age tale brimming with heartache, forgiveness, and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in a tough Bronx neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s, James McSherry dreams of becoming a writer. Faced with his mother's mental illness, his father's brutal murder, and poverty's chokehold, McSherry refuses to lose sight of his future. He struggles to survive in a fragmented world, clinging to his education and his poetry when his mother's fragile grip on reality shatters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harsh consequences of his mother's debilitating mental health binds McSherry and his four siblings in a painful knot, but the love and commitment they have for each other sustains them through a turbulent adolescence. Powerful and moving, \u003ci\u003eA Clean Street's A Happy Street\u003c\/i\u003e intimately reveals one man's determination to break free from a troubling childhood and boldly create a luminous new future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289386889456,"sku":"9781583488638","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781583488638_p0.jpg?v=1763800475","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781583488638","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}