{"product_id":"pops","title":"Pops: Learning to be a Son and a Father; Craig Melvin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful, intimate memoir and exploration of fatherhood and race from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshow. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's legacy of addiction and despair but also transformation and redemption; and to explore the challenges facing all dads--including Craig himself, a father of two young children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrowing up in Columbia, South Carolina, Craig had a fraught relationship with his father. Lawrence Melvin was a distant, often absent parent due to his drinking as well as his job working the graveyard shift at a postal facility. Watching sports and tinkering on Lawrence's beloved (but unreliable) 1973 Pontiac LeMans were two ways father and son connected, but as Lawrence's drinking spiraled out of control, their bond was stretched to the breaking point. Fortunately, Craig had a loving, fiercely protective mother who held the family together. He also had a series of surrogate father figures in his life--uncles, teachers, workplace mentors--who by their examples helped him figure out the kind of person and father he wanted to be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJune 15, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44647367999810,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/55507045.jpg?v=1679193632","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/pops","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}