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A compelling story of one family's journey across
the divide of race, class, and economic opportunity
in America through love and baseball
Michael Rosen'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 boys—all black and Hispanic, from the impoverished neighborhood across the park—became a fixture in the Rosens' 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 boys' 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. It'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. A compelling story of one family's journey across the divide of race, class, and economic opportunity in America through love and baseball Michael Rosen, a community organizer, is the author of Turning Words, Spinning Worlds. He is a former real estate developer and investor, former CEO of a Wall Street firm, former CEO of a publicly traded company destroyed in the events of September 11, 2001, and a former assistant professor at New York University. He lives in New York, and with his wife, Leslie Gruss, helps raise "the Rosen family extended."
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HARDCOVERISBN 978-158648-562-7 Pub date: 07/28/09 Price: $24.95/31.95 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 384 pages 8 pp b/w photos Carton Quantity: 32 Memoir Selling Territory: W Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Audio & Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs Translation & Performance Rights: Sanford J. Greenburger Associates Inc. PAPERBACK ISBN 978-1586488949 Pub date: 07/27/10 Price: $15.95/20.00 Canada 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 384 pages 8 pp b/w photos Memoir Selling Territory: W Pub history: 978-1586485627 E-BOOK ISBN 978-0-78674-617-0 Pub date: 07/28/09 Price: $24.95/31.95 Canada 384 pages
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