{"product_id":"how-i-got-here-a-memoir-9781945271618","title":"How I Got Here: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ceil Lucas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Book Publishers Network\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Book Publishers Network\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow I Got Here: A Memoir tells about her upbringing in Guatemala and Rome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand then as a young adult in America. As a result of her upbringing, upon meeting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esomeone new, she invariably says, \"I wasn't raised here\"--\"here\" meaning America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she has also discovered that her first ancestors on her mother's side were among\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Scottish prisoners of war transported to Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1654; the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst Lucas to America was a Quaker who sailed to Philadelphia in 1679. The stories of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher ancestors--from Scottish prisoners to slaveholders and beyond--have become her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estories and are central to her genealogical memoir. Those stories help explain, in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebroadest sense, how she got here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Publishers Network","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45129207087255,"sku":"9781945271618","price":1212.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781945271618.webp?v=1767904803","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/how-i-got-here-a-memoir-9781945271618","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}