{"product_id":"down-these-mean-streets-a-memoir-0679781420","title":"Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0679781420\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thomas, Piri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modern classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence-and a lyrical memoir of coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem.\"A report from the guts and heart of a submerged population group ... It claims our attention and emotional response.\" -The New York Times Book ReviewThirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating memoir. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery-a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop.As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52276949745952,"sku":"NEW0679781420","price":21.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71Zh6Ve5-9L.jpg?v=1788095559","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/down-these-mean-streets-a-memoir-0679781420","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}