{"product_id":"book-29ms","title":"First Acts: A Black Playwright Comes of Age","description":"Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier grew up in southeast Washington, DC, during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, he was selected for a newly formed honors track at a predominantly white secondary school. Traveling a complex path, Kermit tore down segregation barriers, balanced on an academic pedestal, and battled an internal war of denial against his same-sex attractions… . Through a series of discrete yet interconnected chapters that each unfold through a different \"aspect of perception,\" this memoir vividly describes a young Black man struggling with stereotypes, identity, and mild dyslexia while straddling two middle-class worlds, Black and white, and striving mightily not to be everyone's \"other.\"","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67395577151792,"sku":"BD29ms","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-29ms","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}