{"product_id":"stranger-in-my-own-story-a-memoir-9781558969834","title":"Stranger in My Own Story: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA raw and profound debut that chronicles coming of age as a transracial adoptee. A necessary addition to the modern canon of literary memoirs that explore race, identity, and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErik Mohn was raised to believe that love was enough. America taught him otherwise. Born to a Black mother he never knew and adopted by a white family in small-town Massachusetts, Mohn grew up cherished yet unprepared for what his skin would mean in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStranger in My Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e traces Mohn's coming of age as he searches not just for identity but for language--words for grief, for anger, for belonging, for the silence left by a mother he lost and a father he could never quite reach. He pieces together meaning from what's available and hip-hop becomes his first mirror and his first vocabulary--a survival guide passed through speakers and headphones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the cost of his cultural displacement begins to surface, Mohn is forced to confront the wounds he's been carrying. Those reckonings come to a head at Howard University--\"The Mecca\"--where the self he assembled in isolation is tested in community, challenged in relationship, and slowly transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the lyrical pulse of hip-hop and a moral clarity forged in lived experience, \u003ci\u003eStranger in My Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate memoir of transracial adoption and a universal story about what it costs to grow up without a mirror--and what it takes to build one anyway. Mohn's story mirrors the nation's: unfinished, fragile, and still reaching toward wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Skinner House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558969834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Erik Mohn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53241127993525,"sku":"9781558969834","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eabbc194-c7f5-46f3-8e7e-28257cc5dca3.jpg?v=1788996176","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stranger-in-my-own-story-a-memoir-9781558969834","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}