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"From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is ""a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love"" (Tampa Bay Times"

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Kushner s riveting memoir, <i>Alligator Candy</i>, begins by asking how any parent or family can survive such unimaginable evil and devastating grief .Parents today can understand the love, hope and fear he so eloquently describes in this account of one family s transcendent courage in the face of crushing pain. <b> <i>Bookpage</i>, Top Ten Book of the Month </b>

-A powerful exploration of loss, survival and the tricks of memory.- --NPR, Best Books of 2016 -Kushner's riveting memoir, Alligator Candy, begins by asking how any parent or family can survive such unimaginable evil and devastating grief....Parents today can understand the love, hope and fear he so eloquently describes in this account of one family's transcendent courage in the face of crushing pain.- --Bookpage, -Top Ten Book of the Month- -Kushner's moving book is not only a memorial to a brother tragically deprived of his right to live; it is also a meditation on the courage necessary to live freely in a world riven by pain, suffering, and evil. A probing, poignant memoir abouttragedy, grief, and trying to cope.- --Kirkus Reviews -A raw story about courage, survival and most certainly about love.- --Tampa Bay Times A powerful exploration of loss, survival and the tricks of memory. --NPR, Best Books of 2016 Kushner's riveting memoir, Alligator Candy, begins by asking how any parent or family can survive such unimaginable evil and devastating grief....Parents today can understand the love, hope and fear he so eloquently describes in this account of one family's transcendent courage in the face of crushing pain. --Bookpage, Top Ten Book of the Month Kushner's moving book is not only a memorial to a brother tragically deprived of his right to live; it is also a meditation on the courage necessary to live freely in a world riven by pain, suffering, and evil. A probing, poignant memoir abouttragedy, grief, and trying to cope. --Kirkus Reviews A raw story about courage, survival and most certainly about love. --Tampa Bay Times Kushner s riveting memoir, Alligator Candy, begins by asking how any parent or family can survive such unimaginable evil and devastating grief .Parents today can understand the love, hope and fear he so eloquently describes in this account of one family s transcendent courage in the face of crushing pain. Bookpage, Top Ten Book of the Month Kushner's moving book is not only a memorial to a brother tragically deprived of his right to live; it is also a meditation on the courage necessary to live freely in a world riven by pain, suffering, and evil. A probing, poignant memoir abouttragedy, grief, and trying to cope. Kirkus Reviews A raw story about courage, survival and most certainly about love. Tampa Bay Times

A powerful exploration of loss, survival and the tricks of memory. <b> NPR, Best Books of 2016</b>

Kushner's moving book is not only a memorial to a brother tragically deprived of his right to live; it is also a meditation on the courage necessary to live freely in a world riven by pain, suffering, and evil. A probing, poignant memoir abouttragedy, grief, and trying to cope. --Kirkus Reviews A raw story about courage, survival and most certainly about love. --Tampa Bay Times A powerful exploration of loss, survival and the tricks of memory. --NPR, Best Books of 2016 Kushner's riveting memoir, Alligator Candy, begins by asking how any parent or family can survive such unimaginable evil and devastating grief....Parents today can understand the love, hope and fear he so eloquently describes in this account of one family's transcendent courage in the face of crushing pain. --Bookpage, Top Ten Book of the Month

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A contributing editor of Rolling Stone, David Kushner also writes for publications including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and Esquire. Kushner served as the digital culture commentator for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, and has taught journalism at Princeton University and New York University. He has been featured in The Best Business Writing, The Best American Crime Reporting, and The Best Travel Writing, and his ebook The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice. His books include The Players Ball; Alligator Candy: A Memoir (an NPR Best Book of the Year); Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto; Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb; Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas; and Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.

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