04658cam a2200517 4500 607810976 TxAuBib 20220821120000.0 111103s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307464866 electronic bk. 0307464865 electronic bk. B004J4WMYK Amazon c0fe8b3c-59ab-450a-849e-083900e238fc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 484916 OverDrive (Product ID) 133720 133720 133720 (OCoLC)759509282 TEFOD TEFOD OCLCQ JIC TxAuBib Prendergast, John, 1963- Unlikely brothers. Unlikely brothers [Bridges eBook] : our story of adventure, loss, and redemption / John Prendergast & Michael Mattocks. 1st ed. New York : Crown, 2011. 1 online resource (262 p.) : ill. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3988kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa. But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he's led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, driven, and emotionally wounded twenty-year-old, J.P. made the life-changing decision to form a "Big Brother/Little Brother" relationship with then seven-year-old Michael, who was living out of plastic bags and drifting from one homeless shelter to the next with his mother and siblings. Lacking a connection with his own brother and distancing himself from a disastrous relationship with his father, J.P. formed a unique bond with Michael the moment they met. Michael and J.P. became like family, with Michael and some of his siblings even living with J.P. one summer. In the years that followed, J.P. took Michael and his brothers on outings, whether it was fishing, playing basketball, patronizing cheap restaurants, or going on road trips. This friendship would continue for over twenty-five years as the two coped with varying degrees of violence, instability, and trauma in their own lives. Told in duet, Unlikely Brothers follows Michael as he grows up on the tough streets of Washington, D.C., where as a young teenager he watched his best friend get shot, dropped out of school, and started dealing crack cocaine shortly thereafter. By sixteen, Michael had become the kingpin of his neighborhood, guns and drugs always close at hand. Meanwhile, J.P. was traveling to and from African war zones. J.P. offered Michael a refuge from the streets, never really confronting the gravity of what Michael was going through in his adolescence. In turn, Michael afforded J.P. an escape from his own turbulent personal and professional life. As the years go by, the two swoop in and out of each other's lives, slowly disconnecting as they disappear into their respective worlds, but making their way back to each other at a critical moment for both of them. The effect the two have on each other is extremely significant to both of their paths to redemption. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-19 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Prendergast, John 1963- Mattocks, Michael. Big Brothers of America Case studies. Friendship United States Case studies. Human rights workers United States Biography. Drug dealers United States Biography. Electronic books. Mattocks, Michael. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=C0FE8B3C-59AB-450A-849E-083900E238FC https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C0F/E8B/3C/BrothersKeepersAMemoir9780307464866.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C0FE8B3C-59AB-450A-849E-083900E238FC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C0F/E8B/3C/BrothersKeepersAMemoir9780307464866.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C0FE8B3C-59AB-450A-849E-083900E238FC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C0F/E8B/3C/BrothersKeepersAMemoir9780307464866.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C0FE8B3C-59AB-450A-849E-083900E238FC&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)