{"product_id":"the-tricky-part-isbn-9780807084502","title":"The Tricky Part","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith a New Afterword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This account of a Roman Catholic boyhood interrupted—and derailed—retains a luminous, novelistic complexity that sets it apart from similar tales of stolen childhoods.” (Ben Brantley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween the ages of twelve and fifteen, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with an older man, a counselor he’d met at a Catholic boys’ camp. Almost thirty years later, at the age of forty-two, he set out to find and face his abuser. \u003ci\u003eThe Tricky Part\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of this relationship and its complex effect on the man Moran became. Told with startling candor and disarming humor, \u003ci\u003eThe Tricky Part\u003c\/i\u003e carries us to the heart of a paradox: that what we think of as damage may be the very thing that gives rise to transformation, even grace.Prelude\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I\u003cbr\u003eFalling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK II\u003cbr\u003eWaking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments“Marvelous, courageous, and, above all, thoughtful.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A subtly rendered and remarkably even-handed journey toward redemption.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A beautiful book...Fully human, unsettling, and wise.”\u003cbr\u003e—Tony Kushner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[One of] the best LGBT books of all time...A haunting memoir of abuse and redemption.”\u003cbr\u003e—Benoit Denizet-Lewis, The Good Men Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Martin Moran not only writes unflinchingly about the sexual abuse of a child; he expands it into a meditation on suffering, despair, forgiveness, redemption, and the mysterious workings of grace. He elevates the confessional to the level of art.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Cunningham, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003eMartin Moran makes his living as an actor and writer in New York City. He has appeared in many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including \u003ci\u003eTitanic, Cabaret, Bells Are Ringing,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFloyd Collins.\u003c\/i\u003e He won a 2004 Obie Award for his one-man play, \u003ci\u003eThe Tricky Part,\u003c\/i\u003e which \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e theater critic Ben Brantley praised for the quiet victory of \"rendering chaos with this kind of clarity.\" Moran continues to perform \u003ci\u003eThe Tricky Part\u003c\/i\u003e all over the country.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304446480613,"sku":"NP9780807084502","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807084502.jpg?v=1767741913","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-tricky-part-isbn-9780807084502","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}