{"product_id":"beyond-all-sense-and-reason-paperback-1","title":"Beyond All Sense and Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIt's not so easy being colored, is it?\" I asked him.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackie half-smiled at my remark.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Nope,\" he said. \"It's not. Not always. Not every day.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife can be complicated when you're a fifteen year-old white male, with eight siblings, a twin sister, a best friend who's African American, and a racist girlfriend who's the daughter of an arrogant, hot-tempered member of the Ku Klux Klan. Especially if you're growing up in 1963, the Civil Rights era, in Birmingham, Alabama, a place once widely known as the \u003ci\u003eMost Segregated City in America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the hometown of Mickey McQuade, his twin sister Marti, and Mickey's best friend Jackie Thomas, ordinary teenagers living in extraordinary times, forced to confront an unstable, hate-laden, and sometimes violent world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond All Sense and Reason\u003c\/i\u003e is the debut novel of Mike Diccicco, award-winning Philadelphia ad copywriter turned author, someone who grew up during the sixties in Birmingham, who lived through a time of anger, bigotry and tumult, and who still remembers the heroic people and historic moments that changed American society forever.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68288860979423,"sku":"9798985318906","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pKTFOWdEFL9798985318906.webp?v=1792846331","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/beyond-all-sense-and-reason-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}