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Alligator Candy: A Memoir

David Kushner

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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love" (Tampa Bay Times

Book Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: Mar 21st, 2017
  • Pages: 256
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781451682601
  • Categories: MemoirsSocial HistoryMurder - Serial Killers

About the Author

Kushner, David: - David Kushner is an award-winning journalist and author. His books include Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture; The Players Ball: A Genius, A Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise; and Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb. He has written for publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Outside. His work has been adapted into award-winning films (Zola; Silk Road; Gamechangers), podcasts (Alligator Candy; Cold Truth), and docuseries (The Battle for Justina Pelletier). He teaches journalism at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.

Critics’ reviews

Praise for this book

"A raw story about courage, survival and most certainly about love." --Tampa Bay Times
"Kushner's moving book is not only a memorial to a brother tragically deprived of his right to live; it is also a meditation on the courage necessary to live freely in a world riven by pain, suffering, and evil. A probing, poignant memoir abouttragedy, grief, and trying to cope." --Kirkus Reviews
"A powerful exploration of loss, survival and the tricks of memory." --NPR, Best Books of 2016
"Kushner's riveting memoir, Alligator Candy, begins by asking how any parent or family can survive such unimaginable evil and devastating grief....Parents today can understand the love, hope and fear he so eloquently describes in this account of one family's transcendent courage in the face of crushing pain." --Bookpage, "Top Ten Book of the Month"