{"product_id":"9781412007771","title":"Toasting the Bride: Memoirs of Milestones to Manhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the matter of personal experience, I am qualified to write about Africa \u0026amp; about America as well. In me, the phrase \"African-American\" is alive with vivid experiences. I have spent equal halves of my eventful life in Africa \u0026amp; in the USA. I have citizenship in both worlds \u0026amp; have been uniquely impacted by both through bouts of traumatic experiences. Presently \u0026amp; continuing, one-America-gets to house my body; the other-Africa- my soul. In the ensuing strange marriage of the two cultures, the line between the bride \u0026amp; bridegroom is fluid at best. I can, therefore, constructively praise \u0026amp;\/or criticize both, interchangeably, w\/ civilized equanimity \u0026amp; without fear, favor\/shame. I can \"Toast\" the Bride, specific circumstance warranting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is to inform \u0026amp; to query alike. Although the material presented is predominantly a product of the African culture, it is not parochially African in its view of human life \u0026amp; Nature; nor in the content of the personal experiences presented. The book draws heavily from the literary wisdoms of philosophers to articulate the language \u0026amp; extract a body of knowledge suitable for describing, \u0026amp; coincidental to expressing, the deeper side of personal life experiences. It also juxtaposes traditional African spiritual idealism with modern American material realism to establish context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reader is not to equate the different chapters as simple matching titles of the knowledge they contain. Although these chapters are meaningful \u0026amp; intelligible in themselves, the reader is persuaded to accumulate them progressively as the background necessary for understanding the relation of each to the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToasting the Bride\u003c\/strong\u003e challenges the reader to know more about certain naked hypocrisies of the American legal system \u0026amp; to formulate educated personal opinions about the American social culture and to imbibe some universal lessons of life by partaking in the more vivid accounts of my personal experiences; \u0026amp; by pondering on the harder questions of living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trafford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48531274498289,"sku":"9781412007771","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781412007771_p0.jpg?v=1786297791","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781412007771","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}