{"product_id":"9798237992847","title":"The Price","description":"\u003cp\u003e# THE PRICE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Book Two of *The Perfect World*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Generation That Built Paradise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica has changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe violence that once defined everyday life is almost gone. Crime has collapsed. Schools are safe. Streets are peaceful. Families no longer live behind locked doors and constant fear. The country has achieved what generations once believed impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Perfect World has been born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut every paradise has a price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people who built this new America remember the world that came before it. They remember the funerals, the fear, the violence, the arguments, the victims, and the years when safety seemed impossible. They remember why they chose radical change-and what they were willing to sacrifice to achieve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir children remember none of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into peace, they cannot understand why their parents still speak about danger as though it is waiting around the corner. They have never practiced hiding from violence. They have never planned their lives around fear. They have never known a country where safety was uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo them, peace is not a miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that difference begins to matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the older generation struggles to preserve the lessons written in blood and grief, the younger generation begins asking questions their parents never imagined they would have to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy were such extreme measures necessary?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas everything that was sacrificed truly necessary?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan a society built to eliminate violence become too rigid?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what happens when the people who remember the old world begin disappearing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, America faces a danger that cannot be defeated by another law or another punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt must confront the burden of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**The Price** is the story of the generation that built paradise-and the generation that inherited it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story about safety and freedom, memory and forgetting, sacrifice and inheritance. It asks what happens when the greatest success in a nation's history becomes so ordinary that its children no longer understand what it cost to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause peace does not simply change a country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt changes the people who grow up inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd sometimes, the greatest threat to paradise is not the return of the world that came before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is forgetting why paradise was built in the first place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"T Christophe Manwadu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48802176434417,"sku":"9798237992847","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9798237992847_p0.jpg?v=1789920976","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9798237992847","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}