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LOCAL>> Michael Coffino – Truth Is in the House

Presented by Copperfield's Books – San Rafael at Streaming Arts

Aug 25 2021
LOCAL>> Michael Coffino – Truth Is in the House

Former litigation attorney and basketball coach discusses his debut novel

Featured Book:  Truth Is in the House

As a young boy in the late 1950s, Jimmy O’Farrell emigrates with his family from Ireland to Manhattan to bask in the dawn of a new life. Thousands of miles away, the family of Jaylen Jackson seeks to build a life amid Jim Crow culture in Mississippi.

As teenagers, both boys struggle to come of age in a racially divisive world, suffering horrific tragedies that shape their characters and life missions. Jimmy seeks to define what it means to stand for someone when the chips are down, while Jaylen embarks on a journey to gain respect beyond the color of his skin.

Fleeing the past, both families land in neighboring Bronx communities in the 1960s, where Jimmy and Jaylen’s lives first intersect, on the basketball courts and then in the Vietnam jungle. Repeatedly tested as men of different races, their friendship faces its toughest challenge outside a Bronx bar-with fatal consequences. Truth Is in the House is an epic and provocative tale that plumbs historical and modern racial themes and explores redemption, forgiveness, and the power of connecting through the human spirit.

 

Before becoming a full-time author, ghostwriter, and freelance editor, Michael Coffino had two parallel careers: one in the courtroom, the other in the gymnasium. He was a business litigation and trial attorney and legal writing instructor for four decades and concurrently devoted twenty-five years as a basketball coach, primarily at the high school level, in San Francisco and Marin County. He has authored or co-authored nine books, including Truth Is in the House, his debut novel. Michael has a BS in Education from the City University of New York, and a JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Michael plays guitar, holds a black belt in karate, is a workout junkie, hikes regularly in the hills and mountains of California and Colorado, and plays pickleball. He lives in Marin County, California and has two adult sons, both teachers and high school basketball coaches.

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