{"product_id":"the-ghosts-of-walter-crockett","title":"The Ghosts of Walter Crockett","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere was a lot of pain on Munjoy Hill, a close-knit working-class neighborhood of immigrants that also saw its share of drugs, alcohol, poverty, and violence in the 1960s and 1970s. A young Ed Crockett, at home with seven siblings, an ailing and broke mother, and more than a dozen stray animals, was caught in the middle of it all and looking for a way out. Crockett's memoir is an often bittersweet story that captures the joys of youth and love of family set against a backdrop of poverty, uncertainty, and the ever-present spectre of an alcoholic and often homeless father whose flaws, life choices, and fate haunt a young man and tear at his confidence even as a adult. Can he honor his mother's pleadings to “don't be like your father” and rise above the family's cycle of poverty and alcoholism? With love, compassion, and the cleared-eyed benefit of time, Crockett writes of his siblings, his neighborhood, the eccentric wisdom of his mother, and life in a small city in the years before it emerged as one of the hippest places in America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Islandport Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53391603663121,"sku":"9781952143212","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_d3cf75da-f149-4c30-9f7b-59faea2e441d.jpeg?v=1776867069","url":"https:\/\/www.stablebookgroup.com\/products\/the-ghosts-of-walter-crockett","provider":"Stable Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}