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What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse Hardback - 2009

by Michael Rosen

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Michael Rosen's seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted to come back to his house for snacks and Nintendo. Over time, five of the boys--all black and Hispanic, from the impoverished neighborhood across the park--became a fixture in the Rosens' home and eventually started referring to Michael and his wife Leslie as their parents. The boys began to see the Rosens as more than just an arcade of middle-class creature comforts; the Rosens began to learn the full stories of the boys' fractured lives.

Soon Michael and Leslie decided that their responsibility, like that of parents everywhere, was to help all their boys get a start in life. So began a turbulent learning experience all round, beautifully and movingly depicted in What Else But Home. It's a quest to escape the previously inevitable, a test of the resilience of a newly assembled family, a love story unlike any other, and a celebration of the fact that, whatever our differences, baseball and commitment can help us bridge them.

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  • Title What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse
  • Author Michael Rosen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 363
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date 2009-07
  • ISBN 9781586485627 / 1586485628
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.38 x 1.26 in (23.57 x 16.21 x 3.20 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Social classes - United States, Foster children - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009018734
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Michael Rosen, a community organizer, is the author of Turning Words, Spinning Worlds. He is a former real estate developer and investor, former CEO of a Wall Street firm, former CEO of a publicly traded company destroyed in the events of September 11, 2001, and a former assistant professor at New York University. He lives in New York, and with his wife, Leslie Gruss, helps raise "the Rosen family extended."
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