{"product_id":"629-a-first-generation-tale-in-america-by-dr-gerardo-gauthier-zayas-author","title":"629: A First Generation Tale in America by Dr. Gerardo Gauthier-Zayas (Author)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhat if the house you grew up in shaped not just your childhood, but your entire understanding of who you were allowed to become?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Dr. Gerardo Gauthier-Zayas, that house was a brick townhouse at 629 Harrison Avenue: home to a family of ten in Boston's Cathedral Projects, and the starting point of a lifelong search for belonging. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e629\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the raw, unflinching memoir of a boy who grew up different in every direction at once: the seventh of eight children, the lightest-skinned in a proudly Puerto Rican family, and, quietly, a different child coming of age inside a devout Catholic household where being different from expectations meant going to hell. Long before he became an entrepreneur, educator, leadership consultant, and community builder, Gerardo was a kid learning to survive first and understand himself later: navigating machismo, poverty, faith, family loyalty, and a childhood marked by trauma he would spend decades making sense of.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough stories that move from stickball games on Harrison Avenue to a deathbed reconciliation with his father, from the terror of being \"found out\" to the mentors and community members who helped him hold onto hope, Gerardo traces the full arc of a life lived between cultures, expectations, and identities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eInside this memoir, you'll discover:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat it was like to grow up as the \"white sheep\" of a Puerto Rican family, and the toll of hiding an essential part of yourself\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe complicated, evolving relationship between a father raised on machismo and a son learning to live authentically\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow childhood trauma, faith, and family loyalty can coexist, collide, and eventually be reconciled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe mentors, friendships, and moments of grace that carried a struggling kid toward self-acceptance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA story of healing that resists easy answers, offered instead as an honest reflection on identity, survival, and love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhether you grew up navigating your own questions of identity and belonging, come from a large immigrant or first-generation family, or simply want a memoir that tells the truth without flinching, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e629\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites you into a life that is deeply personal and, in its particulars, universal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis is not a story about arriving somewhere finished. It's a story about becoming, and about learning that the stories we're most afraid to tell may be exactly the ones that help someone else feel less alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerardo Gauthier-Zayas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68170212409660,"sku":"9781997021568","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/6111dPRBcQL._SL1491.avif?v=1794610767","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/629-a-first-generation-tale-in-america-by-dr-gerardo-gauthier-zayas-author","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}