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Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
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August 2009
On Sale: July 28, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 1586485628
EAN: 9781586485627
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Michael RosenΓ’β¬β’s seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted to come back to his house for snacks and Nintendo. Over time, five of the boysΓ’β¬βall black and Hispanic, from the impoverished neighborhood across the parkΓ’β¬βbecame a fixture in the RosensΓ’β¬β’ home and eventually started referring to Michael and his wife Leslie as their parents. The boys began to see the Rosens as more than just an arcade of middle-class creature comforts; the Rosens began to learn the full stories of the boysΓ’β¬β’ fractured lives. Soon Michael and Leslie decided that their responsibility, like that of parents everywhere, was to help all their boys get a start in life. So began a turbulent learning experience all round, beautifully and movingly depicted in What Else But Home. ItΓ’β¬β’s a quest to escape the previously inevitable, a test of the resilience of a newly assembled family, a love story unlike any other, and a celebration of the fact that, whatever our differences, baseball and commitment can help us bridge them.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - August 17, 2009
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