{"product_id":"roadcuts-through-the-heart-a-georgia-memoir-paperback","title":"Roadcuts Through The Heart: A Georgia Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Weddell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a small Georgia town in the fifties, a curious eight-year-old White boy is puzzled. Why is he supposed to hold doors for White but not Black women? Why is there a toilet in the attic? Why are a dark-skinned woman's palms white?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the South transforms from Old to New under the immense pressure of social upheaval, his idyllic red-clay childhood disappears when his father dies and his mother departs for a mental ward, plunging the family into financial and emotional chaos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the puzzles only continue. Despite his insights, he clings to his \u003cem\u003ethat's just the way it is\u003c\/em\u003e mentality until integration looms, and a chance encounter marks a pivot in his process of beginning to unlearn racism. Then a scholarship to an Ivy League school up north provides an out but not a solution to his conflicts about family duty. Having coasted through high school, he finds himself unprepared for the academic and psychological challenges of his new life. Football is a haven, but he flounders and barely graduates. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe stays in the City and begins working with teenage drug users in the very neighborhoods he was warned about. As he begins untangling the knots tormenting him, he meets a woman from the city who is intrigued by this Southern jock who sings freedom songs. Seventeen months later, they marry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoadcuts Through the Heart \u003c\/em\u003eweaves stories from varied times and places in a memoir about forgiveness and social change. Alabama prison trusties, baseball gloves, B-cowboy movies, sudden deaths, sexual abuse, Southern segregation, Northern ghettos, Big Apple drug programs, campus protests, unhinged lawmen, and a Southern biddy's voice are all encountered on the boy's grace-assisted path to forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52915079708979,"sku":"9781950794508","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kIHAvPwsMN9781950794508.webp?v=1767254277","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/roadcuts-through-the-heart-a-georgia-memoir-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}