{"product_id":"9780062684318","title":"What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits: creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; provoking the angst that made him question if “being straight” was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble; and generating the surreal experience of watching his Pittsburgh neighbourhood gentrify from predominantly Black to “Portlandia … but with Pierogies.”  And, at its most devastating, it provides him a reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Damon+Young\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDamon Young\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Damon Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377360126115,"sku":"9780062684318","price":400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780062684318_470ea635-1fcf-471e-bcd4-b0fd30c25d5e.jpg?v=1776451776","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780062684318","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}