{"product_id":"there-will-be-no-miracles-here-a-memoir-paperback","title":"There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCasey Gerald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY \u003ci\u003eNPR \u003c\/i\u003eAND\u003ci\u003e THE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePBS NEWSHOUR\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary.\" --Marlon James\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency reminiscent of James Baldwin in this powerfully emotional memoir.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCasey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team--is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he's never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Will Be No Miracles Here\u003c\/i\u003e has the arc of a classic rags-to-riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury, \u003ci\u003e There Will Be No Miracles Here\u003c\/i\u003einspires us to question--even shatter--and reimagine our most cherished myths.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCasey Gerald\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Oak Cliff, Texas and went to Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he cofounded MBAs Across America. He has been featured on PBS Newshour, MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of \u003ci\u003eFast Company\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42164653326471,"sku":"9780735214224","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/39ea9e4478035dd0558ee14eceeb509a.webp?v=1733307615","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/there-will-be-no-miracles-here-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}