Black Cracker - Friedman, Josh Alan
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South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on "Lawrence Welk," the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - "a memoir you can't accuse of lies." Center stage in the unflinching and frequently hilarious funhouse tour of Friedman's Long Island boyhood is a rogues' gallery that includes Bobo, precocious…mehr

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South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on "Lawrence Welk," the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - "a memoir you can't accuse of lies." Center stage in the unflinching and frequently hilarious funhouse tour of Friedman's Long Island boyhood is a rogues' gallery that includes Bobo, precocious third-grade dropout and boy prince of the ghetto; his bumbling (and alarmingly potent) ne'er-do-well Uncle Limpy; Mumsy, the smelliest shoeshine boy in Penn Station; Mrs. O'Leary, the menacing Irish nanny; her son, Drake, an etiquette-obsessed, switchblade-totin' clammer overwhelmed by the tides of racial progress; and the impoverished Wilshires, the bone-white, nigger-hatin'-est crackers in town. At once heartbreaking and hysterically funny, BLACK CRACKER delivers a fearless account of adventures in the now-forgotten poor Black shantytowns of Long Island, exploring the singular ugliness of racism, the intrigue of janitorial whodunits, the tragic limits of friendship, and the inexplicable seductive powers of croco-print footwear.
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Writer-guitarist Josh Alan Friedman sold his soul at the Crossroads of the World-42nd Street and Broadway-and moved to Texas in 1987. He is the author of TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED, WHEN SEX WAS DIRTY, and I, GOLDSTEIN (with Al Goldstein). Featuring the art of his brother, Drew Friedman, he wrote the comix collected in two anthologies: ANY SIMILARITY TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL, and WARTS AND ALL. As "Josh Alan," he barnstormed the Republic of Texas for 30 years, winning three Dallas Observer Music Awards for Best Acoustic Act. He released five albums: FAMOUS & POOR, THE WORST!, BLACKS 'N' JEWS, JOSH ALAN BAND, and SIXTY, GODDAMMIT. BLACK CRACKER was his first novel, and he is working on a second, ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREAT NECK. Visit BlackCracker.fm