num_pages: 240
description: A provocative intellectual memoir (USA Today)-from a remarkable new literary voice. Growing up Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents literature and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles keeping it real in his friends' eyes and studying for the SATs under his father's strict tutelage-until it all threatened to spin out of control. Written with remarkable candor and emotional depth Losing My Cool portrays the allure and danger of hip-hop culture with the authority of a true fan who's lived through it all while demonstrating the saving grace of literature and the power of the bond between father and son.
language: English
title: Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
publisher: Penguin Press HC, The