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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Some children inherit a house, a name, a future. James David Vanderpool inherited a sentence he never committed.Before he could walk, before he had words for what was happening to him, James was already carrying the weight of a family fractured by incarceration. This is a memoir about growing up in the space between the free world and the system that swallows it - foster homes, courtrooms, and the long shadow of a father behind the walls of San Quentin.From a childhood in foster care with strangers who saw him as a paycheck, to reunions with a father he barely knew, to the grandparents who tried to hold the pieces together, James Vanderpool tells a story most people only see from the outside: what it actually costs a kid to grow up as collateral damage of the American prison system.But this isn't just a story of what was done to him. It's a story of what he built anyway.As a teenager, he found something that gave him a reason to keep showing up: BMX racing. The gate, the line, the five-second light sequence before the drop - it became the one place in his life he could control. Racing carried him through years of chaos, and later, through a battle with addiction that nearly took everything, including his ability to be there for his own family.Sentenced to Survive doesn't offer easy redemption. James is honest about the ninety days that mattered more than any trophy, about losing his sister Rachel and still holding her ashes in his home, and about what it really looks like to rebuild a life with no clean paper trail and no shortcuts - just grit, one payroll and one sober day at a time.This is a memoir for anyone who has ever been told their beginning determines their ending - for readers of prison memoirs, addiction and recovery narratives, foster care survivor stories, and anyone who believes that resilience isn't a straight line, but a track full of hard turns you keep pedaling through anyway.He's still lining up at the gate. He's still waiting for his father to walk free. And he's still writing his own way out.The gate always drops eventually - the only real failure is refusing to roll up to the line.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Some children inherit a house, a name, a future. James David Vanderpool inherited a sentence he never committed.Before he could walk, before he had words for what was happening to him, James was already carrying the weight of a family fractured by incarceration. This is a memoir about growing up in the space between the free world and the system that swallows it - foster homes, courtrooms, and the long shadow of a father behind the walls of San Quentin.From a childhood in foster care with strangers who saw him as a paycheck, to reunions with a father he barely knew, to the grandparents who tried to hold the pieces together, James Vanderpool tells a story most people only see from the outside: what it actually costs a kid to grow up as collateral damage of the American prison system.But this isn't just a story of what was done to him. It's a story of what he built anyway.As a teenager, he found something that gave him a reason to keep showing up: BMX racing. The gate, the line, the five-second light sequence before the drop - it became the one place in his life he could control. Racing carried him through years of chaos, and later, through a battle with addiction that nearly took everything, including his ability to be there for his own family.Sentenced to Survive doesn't offer easy redemption. James is honest about the ninety days that mattered more than any trophy, about losing his sister Rachel and still holding her ashes in his home, and about what it really looks like to rebuild a life with no clean paper trail and no shortcuts - just grit, one payroll and one sober day at a time.This is a memoir for anyone who has ever been told their beginning determines their ending - for readers of prison memoirs, addiction and recovery narratives, foster care survivor stories, and anyone who believes that resilience isn't a straight line, but a track full of hard turns you keep pedaling through anyway.He's still lining up at the gate. He's still waiting for his father to walk free. And he's still writing his own way out.The gate always drops eventually - the only real failure is refusing to roll up to the line. Born into the wreckage of a fractured family and the shadow of the penal system, one man fights to outrun a predetermined fate through the grit of competitive racing and the grueling climb of recovery. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. James Vanderpool's first memory isn't a lullaby - it's the sound of metal tearing apart. He was conceived the same weekend his mother's car flipped in a field, and he says the wreck marked him before he ever took a breath. It set the tone for everything that came after.By age two he was living with his grandmother. By eleven he was cycling through group homes. His father was serving 25-to-life in California's maximum-security system, present only as a shadow over the family he'd left behind. His mother was fighting her own war. And James was left to build a self out of whatever pieces he could find - a foster home with people who "had no business taking in kids," a grandfather's boots on a hallway floor, a BMX track at Woodward Park that became the only gate he ever lined up at with something to prove.Sentenced to Survive follows that life in full - the running, the racing, the relationships that stayed even when he gave them every reason to leave, the addiction that took hold and never fully let go, and the honor dorm where he tried to become someone the system hadn't already written off. It follows him to the day his sister Rachael was killed, and to the ninety clean days he built afterward, and to day ninety-three, when he relapsed anyway.This is not a redemption story with a bow on it. James is upfront from the first page: he is still in the fight as he writes this, with no guarantee of how it ends. What he offers instead is something harder to find and harder to fake - a completely honest reckoning with a life shaped by incarceration, the foster system, addiction, and grief, told by someone who refused to let the courts, the counselors, or the case files be the ones to write his story.For readers of unflinching memoirs like Educated, The Glass Castle, or Beautiful Boy - this is a story about what it actually looks like to keep showing up, one uncertain day at a time. A raw, unvarnished look at a life shaped by the foster system and addiction, following a man's relentless struggle to reclaim his identity from the wreckage of a broken childhood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Some children inherit a house, a name, a future. James David Vanderpool inherited a sentence he never committed.Before he could walk, before he had words for what was happening to him, James was already carrying the weight of a family fractured by incarceration. This is a memoir about growing up in the space between the free world and the system that swallows it - foster homes, courtrooms, and the long shadow of a father behind the walls of San Quentin.From a childhood in foster care with strangers who saw him as a paycheck, to reunions with a father he barely knew, to the grandparents who tried to hold the pieces together, James Vanderpool tells a story most people only see from the outside: what it actually costs a kid to grow up as collateral damage of the American prison system.But this isn't just a story of what was done to him. It's a story of what he built anyway.As a teenager, he found something that gave him a reason to keep showing up: BMX racing. The gate, the line, the five-second light sequence before the drop - it became the one place in his life he could control. Racing carried him through years of chaos, and later, through a battle with addiction that nearly took everything, including his ability to be there for his own family.Sentenced to Survive doesn't offer easy redemption. James is honest about the ninety days that mattered more than any trophy, about losing his sister Rachel and still holding her ashes in his home, and about what it really looks like to rebuild a life with no clean paper trail and no shortcuts - just grit, one payroll and one sober day at a time.This is a memoir for anyone who has ever been told their beginning determines their ending - for readers of prison memoirs, addiction and recovery narratives, foster care survivor stories, and anyone who believes that resilience isn't a straight line, but a track full of hard turns you keep pedaling through anyway.He's still lining up at the gate. He's still waiting for his father to walk free. And he's still writing his own way out.The gate always drops eventually - the only real failure is refusing to roll up to the line. Born into the wreckage of a fractured family and the shadow of the penal system, one man fights to outrun a predetermined fate through the grit of competitive racing and the grueling climb of recovery. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Some children inherit a house, a name, a future. James David Vanderpool inherited a sentence he never committed.Before he could walk, before he had words for what was happening to him, James was already carrying the weight of a family fractured by incarceration. This is a memoir about growing up in the space between the free world and the system that swallows it - foster homes, courtrooms, and the long shadow of a father behind the walls of San Quentin.From a childhood in foster care with strangers who saw him as a paycheck, to reunions with a father he barely knew, to the grandparents who tried to hold the pieces together, James Vanderpool tells a story most people only see from the outside: what it actually costs a kid to grow up as collateral damage of the American prison system.But this isn't just a story of what was done to him. It's a story of what he built anyway.As a teenager, he found something that gave him a reason to keep showing up: BMX racing. The gate, the line, the five-second light sequence before the drop - it became the one place in his life he could control. Racing carried him through years of chaos, and later, through a battle with addiction that nearly took everything, including his ability to be there for his own family.Sentenced to Survive doesn't offer easy redemption. James is honest about the ninety days that mattered more than any trophy, about losing his sister Rachel and still holding her ashes in his home, and about what it really looks like to rebuild a life with no clean paper trail and no shortcuts - just grit, one payroll and one sober day at a time.This is a memoir for anyone who has ever been told their beginning determines their ending - for readers of prison memoirs, addiction and recovery narratives, foster care survivor stories, and anyone who believes that resilience isn't a straight line, but a track full of hard turns you keep pedaling through anyway.He's still lining up at the gate. He's still waiting for his father to walk free. And he's still writing his own way out.The gate always drops eventually - the only real failure is refusing to roll up to the line. Born into the wreckage of a fractured family and the shadow of the penal system, one man fights to outrun a predetermined fate through the grit of competitive racing and the grueling climb of recovery. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. James Vanderpool's first memory isn't a lullaby - it's the sound of metal tearing apart. He was conceived the same weekend his mother's car flipped in a field, and he says the wreck marked him before he ever took a breath. It set the tone for everything that came after.By age two he was living with his grandmother. By eleven he was cycling through group homes. His father was serving 25-to-life in California's maximum-security system, present only as a shadow over the family he'd left behind. His mother was fighting her own war. And James was left to build a self out of whatever pieces he could find - a foster home with people who "had no business taking in kids," a grandfather's boots on a hallway floor, a BMX track at Woodward Park that became the only gate he ever lined up at with something to prove.Sentenced to Survive follows that life in full - the running, the racing, the relationships that stayed even when he gave them every reason to leave, the addiction that took hold and never fully let go, and the honor dorm where he tried to become someone the system hadn't already written off. It follows him to the day his sister Rachael was killed, and to the ninety clean days he built afterward, and to day ninety-three, when he relapsed anyway.This is not a redemption story with a bow on it. James is upfront from the first page: he is still in the fight as he writes this, with no guarantee of how it ends. What he offers instead is something harder to find and harder to fake - a completely honest reckoning with a life shaped by incarceration, the foster system, addiction, and grief, told by someone who refused to let the courts, the counselors, or the case files be the ones to write his story.For readers of unflinching memoirs like Educated, The Glass Castle, or Beautiful Boy - this is a story about what it actually looks like to keep showing up, one uncertain day at a time. A raw, unvarnished look at a life shaped by the foster system and addiction, following a man's relentless struggle to reclaim his identity from the wreckage of a broken childhood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. James Vanderpool's first memory isn't a lullaby - it's the sound of metal tearing apart. He was conceived the same weekend his mother's car flipped in a field, and he says the wreck marked him before he ever took a breath. It set the tone for everything that came after.By age two he was living with his grandmother. By eleven he was cycling through group homes. His father was serving 25-to-life in California's maximum-security system, present only as a shadow over the family he'd left behind. His mother was fighting her own war. And James was left to build a self out of whatever pieces he could find - a foster home with people who "had no business taking in kids," a grandfather's boots on a hallway floor, a BMX track at Woodward Park that became the only gate he ever lined up at with something to prove.Sentenced to Survive follows that life in full - the running, the racing, the relationships that stayed even when he gave them every reason to leave, the addiction that took hold and never fully let go, and the honor dorm where he tried to become someone the system hadn't already written off. It follows him to the day his sister Rachael was killed, and to the ninety clean days he built afterward, and to day ninety-three, when he relapsed anyway.This is not a redemption story with a bow on it. James is upfront from the first page: he is still in the fight as he writes this, with no guarantee of how it ends. What he offers instead is something harder to find and harder to fake - a completely honest reckoning with a life shaped by incarceration, the foster system, addiction, and grief, told by someone who refused to let the courts, the counselors, or the case files be the ones to write his story.For readers of unflinching memoirs like Educated, The Glass Castle, or Beautiful Boy - this is a story about what it actually looks like to keep showing up, one uncertain day at a time. A raw, unvarnished look at a life shaped by the foster system and addiction, following a man's relentless struggle to reclaim his identity from the wreckage of a broken childhood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…