{"product_id":"9780802170293","title":"Man Gone Down: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Powerful and moving . . . [Thomas] knows how the odds are stacked in America.”—Kaiama L. Glover, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(cover review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully written and devastating first novel, \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a young Black father in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream he has bargained on since youth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed Black narrator of \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/i\u003e finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep the kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them in which to live. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we learn of a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is a story of the American Dream gone awry, about what it’s like to feel preprogrammed to fail in life and the urge to escape that sentence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Thomas’s writing recalls some of the great American masters, including Ralph Ellison, but his debut is wholly and distinctly an original. \u003ci\u003eMan Gone Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling addition to the literature of and about America today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370048917565,"sku":"9780802170293","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780802170293_p0.jpg?v=1771580233","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780802170293","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}