The Record That Woke

THE RECORD THAT WOKE arrives as a rare literary achievement - a single volume containing three fully realized versions of the same story: a Pulitzer¿caliber novel, a stage play of searing theatrical precision, and an Oscar¿ready feature film screenplay that transforms the narrative into pure cinematic force.Set against the charged moral landscape of Pittsburgh, this work traces a twenty¿four¿year reckoning ignited by a buried municipal record - a document that should have died quietly but instead becomes the fuse for a family's battle against erasure, power, and the machinery of convenience. The novel delivers the emotional architecture: intimate, unflinching, and steeped in generational memory. The stage play sharpens that architecture into confrontation - a chamber of truth where characters collide with the systems that shaped them. The screenplay expands the story into a sweeping, visual epic, crafted with the momentum, structure, and emotional voltage of an Oscar¿winning adaptation.Together, these three forms create a single, immersive experience: a story that can be read, performed, and filmed - each version revealing new dimensions of the same truth. This is not just a book; it is a complete artistic ecosystem, a blueprint for page, stage, and screen.The Record That Woke stands as a bold contribution to American storytelling - a work of memory, resistance, and narrative innovation that refuses to be forgotten. It asks what happens when a nation's celebration of sport collides with the unfinished business of race and power. Written with the emotional force of Roots and the precision of a legal thriller, The Record That Woke transforms a local injustice into a national reckoning.

Pagina's: 364, Paperback, Koger and Koger