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Bones Worth Breaking

Bones Worth Breaking A Memoir

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Publisher's Synopsis

A portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them. Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart except for his younger brother, Mike. They stood out in Idaho: Black and Brazilian American in a Mormon community that, in the years before David's birth, considered Black people ineligible for salvation. The Martinez brothers were raised to be 'good boys', definitely not to get high, skateboard all night, or get arrested, all of which they did with zeal. Then their paths diverged. David went on a two-year mission trip to Brazil, and Mike stayed in the States, finding himself in and out of prison. When David returned, in the middle of the still-unnamed opioid epidemic, things had irrevocably changed, and in 2021, Mike unexpectedly died in prison.

Book information

ISBN: 9780374610951
Publisher: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20231204
Language: English
Weight: 296g
Height: 128mm
Width: 191mm
Spine width: 29mm