{ "item_title" : "Brick By Brick", "item_author" : [" Robert Hall "], "item_description" : "Synopsis - BRICK BY BRICKBRICK BY BRICK is an emotional story of family, ambition, betrayal, faith, loss, and one man's fight to rebuild himself after the life he spent decades creating begins to collapse.Growing up in Flushing, Queens, Quincy Williams learns early that responsibility is not optional. With a hardworking father who expects him to become a man before he is fully ready and a family depending on him, Quincy develops the discipline, independence, and determination that will shape the rest of his life.At eighteen, he leaves home and eventually enters the United States Marines. Military service opens a world far beyond Queens. Quincy travels overseas, forms lifelong friendships, experiences different cultures, and grows from a shy young man into someone confident, capable, and respected. Along the way, he falls in love with Vanessa.Together, Quincy and Vanessa build what appears to be the life he always wanted: marriage, children, a home, careers, memories, struggles, laughter, and eighteen years of shared history. Quincy becomes a devoted father and rises professionally, believing that discipline, loyalty, hard work, and love can hold almost anything together.But foundations can crack slowly.Marriage problems deepen. Betrayal enters the relationship. Family bonds become strained. Then accusations Quincy maintains are false lead to ten devastating days in jail, threatening his freedom, reputation, career, relationship with his children, and sense of identity.With almost everything that once defined him disappearing, Quincy is forced to confront a question harder than anything he faced in uniform: Who is he when the titles, relationships, career, and certainty are gone?In the darkness, Quincy turns toward God. His journey through depression, anger, drinking, therapy, forgiveness, work, cooking, writing, and renewed purpose becomes a different kind of battle-one that cannot be won through strength alone.Just as Quincy begins rebuilding, the death of his beloved younger brother, Quentin, brings his faith to another breaking point. Angry with God and unable to understand why someone he loved was taken, Quincy must learn that faith does not always provide explanations-and that forgiveness does not mean reconciliation, grief does not disappear on command, and healing does not require pretending the past never happened.Starting again at the bottom, Quincy slowly rebuilds his professional life, discovers deeper purpose through cooking and writing, reconnects with the people who remained beside him, and learns to appreciate both success and failure.BRICK BY BRICK is ultimately not a story about getting the old life back.It is about building differently.It is about discovering that some bricks are given to us, some are placed in our path by other people, and some are created by our own choices. We cannot always choose what happens to us-but we can choose what we build from what remains.Sometimes losing everything isn't the end of your story.Sometimes it's where rebuilding begins.And sometimes the only way forward is one brick at a time.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/066/9798160665986_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "23.99", "online_price" : "23.99", "our_price" : "23.99", "club_price" : "23.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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