{"product_id":"brothers-a-memoir-of-love-loss-and-race-hardcover","title":"Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNico Slate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrothers \u003c\/i\u003eis Nico Slate's poignant memoir about Peter Slate, aka XL, a Black rapper and screenwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American mother but had different fathers. Nico's was White; Peter's was Black. Growing up in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Nico often forgot about their racial differences until one night in March 1994 when Peter was attacked by a White man in a nightclub in Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nico began writing \u003ci\u003eBrothers\u003c\/i\u003e with the hope that investigating the attack would bring him closer to Peter. He could not understand that night, however, without grappling with the many ways race had long separated him from his brother. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is a memoir of loss--the loss of a life and the loss at the heart of our racial divide--but it is also a memoir of love. The love between Nico and Peter permeates every page of \u003ci\u003eBrothers. \u003c\/i\u003eThis achingly beautiful memoir presents one family's resilience on the fault lines of race in contemporary America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNico Slate\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, and the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eLord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndia \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.25 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772495888672,"sku":"9781439923825","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a4aa6026bbd851fb194c9b236e16a682.webp?v=1780407031","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/brothers-a-memoir-of-love-loss-and-race-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}