{"product_id":"jesus-my-father-the-cia-and-me-a-memoir-of-sorts-9780849946103","title":"Jesus, My Father, the Cia, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and finding a faith to redeem and a strength to forgive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a record of my life as I remember it--but more importantly, as I felt it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of sixteen, Ian Morgan Cron was told by his mother that his father, a motion picture executive, worked with the CIA in Europe. This astonishing revelation, coupled with his father's dark struggle with alcoholism, upended the world of a teenager struggling to become a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into a family of privilege and power, Ian's life is populated with colorful people and stories as his father takes the family on a wild roller-coaster ride through wealth and poverty and back again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, as he faced his own personal demons, Ian realized that the only way to find peace was to voyage back through a painful childhood marked by extremes--privilege and poverty, violence and tenderness, truth and deceit--that he'd spent years trying to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA fast-paced, unique memoir about the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Road Back to You\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetails his father's struggle with alcohol and Cron's own journey from addiction to twenty-three years of sobriety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncouragement to see God's redemptive power through life's struggles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this surprisingly funny and forgiving memoir, Ian reminds us that no matter how different the pieces may be, in the end we are all cut from the same cloth, stitched by faith into an exquisite quilt of grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Nelson Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780849946103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ian Morgan Cron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362455949493,"sku":"9780849946103","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ed9326a7-2462-4c67-9ac0-c8d5964183ea.jpg?v=1662435716","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jesus-my-father-the-cia-and-me-a-memoir-of-sorts-9780849946103","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}