The Disproportionate Press
A curated publishing arm, The Disproportionate Press seeks to help connect authors with their audiences. Our first two titles tell the story: Grisham's Juror, a fun and witty tale about jury duty in Laguna Beach, California; and From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir of Privilege and Luck, a first-hand account of the how one man made his way through the tragedy of war. Two stories disproportionate in scope (one fiction, one nonfiction), but similar in the quality of writing and storytelling.
The Disproportionate Press serves as a hybrid solution for authors who prefer some form of curation and would like to share in the success of publishing.
The Disproportionate Press serves as a hybrid solution for authors who prefer some form of curation and would like to share in the success of publishing.
Our second title:
From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir of Privilege and Luck
by Anatol Chari & Timothy Braatz
When German soldiers invaded the Polish city of Lodz at the start of World War II, they confined the local Jewish community to a miserable, overcrowded ghetto. Through family connections, a Jewish teenager named Anatol Chari (far left in photo) became a ghetto policeman. Because they were sometimes viewed as collaborators, ghetto policemen who survived the war kept their past a secret. In From Ghetto to Death Camp, Chari reveals that hidden story, describing the policemen’s duties—guarding food, rounding up prisoners for transport—and the privileges it brought them. Those privileges ended when the ghetto population was transported to Auschwitz. As a slave laborer, Chari went on to various work camps, endured long marches and an Allied bombing raid, and ended up in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. To survive the camps, he now says, you needed help, smarts, and most of all luck. He depicts a seemingly senseless world where guards could be decent or cruel, where some prisoners were sent to hospitals and others to gas chambers, and where food was everything. Written with remarkable honesty and unexpected wit, this unique memoir is in many ways a reflection on the human condition.
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Our first title:
Grisham's Juror
by Timothy Braatz
When high school math teacher Guillam Fletcher finds his summer vacation interrupted by unwanted jury duty, he looks to Grisham novels for guidance and soon is imagining a conspiracy at every turn. His search for the big money connection behind a gang-related murder and a mysterious defense attorney becomes a personal journey into the luxuries and laments of life in an Orange County beach town.
GRISHAM’S JUROR is set in Laguna Beach, California. Fletcher’s girlfriend, Marissa, insists the accused murderer—a black man faced with a white jury—is innocent. When Fletcher discovers that the husband of Marissa’s favorite client is funding the defense counsel, he cannot believe it is mere coincidence. By day, Fletcher plays court jester, flirting with fellow jurors and contempt of court while trying to see justice served. At night, he and Pete, a fellow teacher and prankster, investigate the shadowy financial arrangement, trespassing their way into the dinner parties and hot tubs of upscale Laguna. Marissa’s growing ambivalence, Pete’s near-death accident, and the unexpected twists of jury deliberation provoke Fletcher into an examination of his own complacent existence. He surfs with dolphins; critiques local artists, breast implants, gated communities, bumper stickers, and Grisham; and spends too much time in traffic. In a final escapade, Fletcher and Pete venture into the rough neighborhoods of Los Angeles to find answers, then scurry back behind the “Orange Curtain.”
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GRISHAM’S JUROR is set in Laguna Beach, California. Fletcher’s girlfriend, Marissa, insists the accused murderer—a black man faced with a white jury—is innocent. When Fletcher discovers that the husband of Marissa’s favorite client is funding the defense counsel, he cannot believe it is mere coincidence. By day, Fletcher plays court jester, flirting with fellow jurors and contempt of court while trying to see justice served. At night, he and Pete, a fellow teacher and prankster, investigate the shadowy financial arrangement, trespassing their way into the dinner parties and hot tubs of upscale Laguna. Marissa’s growing ambivalence, Pete’s near-death accident, and the unexpected twists of jury deliberation provoke Fletcher into an examination of his own complacent existence. He surfs with dolphins; critiques local artists, breast implants, gated communities, bumper stickers, and Grisham; and spends too much time in traffic. In a final escapade, Fletcher and Pete venture into the rough neighborhoods of Los Angeles to find answers, then scurry back behind the “Orange Curtain.”
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ISBN/EAN13:
Page Count: Binding Type: Language: Color: Related Categories: List Price: Kindle Price: |
0615526047 / 9780615526041
258 US Trade Paper Trim Size: 6" x 9" English Black and White Fiction / Literary $12.99 $2.99 |
Meet the Author: Timothy Braatz
Timothy Braatz is the author of Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples and, with Anatol Chari, From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir of Privilege and Luck, published in Germany as Undermensch. His numerous plays include The Devil and the Wedding Dress, Helena Handbasket, and Paper Cuts, and he has served as playwright-in-residence with The Chameleon Theatre Circle in the Minnesota twin cities. He teaches history and peace studies at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.