{"product_id":"broken-king","title":"The Broken King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Michael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. It's genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical books I have ever read. I'm full of awe.' Helen Macdonald, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eH Is for Hawk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Entirely mesmerizing... With a virtuosic command of language and an eagle eye for punishing detail, Thomas has rendered beautifully an excruciating existence from which it is impossible to turn away'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/i\u003e - winner of the 2007 Dublin International Literary Award -  a deeply personal memoir of race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, mental illness and ultimately hope in a portrait of three generations of Black American men\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his second book and first work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and the beloved, trauma and recovery, success and failure in a unique, urgent, and timeless memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBringing to mind both James Baldwin's \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time and\u003c\/i\u003e Vladimir Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas' memoir unfolds through six powerful, interlocking and overlaying parts focusing on the lives of five men: his father--a philosopher, Boston Red Sox fan, and absent parent; his estranged older brother; his two sons growing up in Brooklyn; and always, heartbreakingly himself. At the center of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of Thomas' own breakdown, a result of inherited family history and his own experiences, from growing up Black in the Boston suburbs to publishing a prize-winning novel with \"the house of Beckett.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvery page of \u003ci\u003eThe Broken King \u003c\/i\u003erings with the impact of America's sweeping struggle with race and class, education and family, and builds to a brave, meticulous articulation of a creative mind's journey into and out of madness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Broken King","offer_id":46479972270277,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-3985-6219-6.jpg?v=1782965449","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/broken-king","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}