{"product_id":"the-center-that-could-not-hold","title":"The Center That Could Not Hold","description":"\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe mall that defined Houston.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe violence exposed its truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe book that refuses to let the city look away.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eFor decades, the Houston Galleria was the crown jewel of Texas, a monument of glass, marble, and aspiration. Thirty‑five million visitors a year. An ice rink in the middle of the Texas heat. A place where Houston came to see itself reflected in luxury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eBut behind the shine was a record no one wanted to confront.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMurders in the parking garages.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eHundreds of violent incidents.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA federal child exploitation case.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA decades‑long pattern of racial discrimination.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIllegal surveillance.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eCorporate silence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThe Center That Could Not Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to pull every thread together,  the data, the lawsuits, the human stories, the failures of accountability, and reveal the full truth about what happened at one of the most powerful commercial institutions in the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eToseika, Houston native and founder of Finding Destiny, blends investigative reporting with deeply personal narrative to show what the Galleria meant to the city, what it became, and what it cost the communities that were never truly welcomed within its walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eThis is a story about violence and race. About corporate power and civic neglect. About the people who deserved safety and never received it. About the city that loved a mall that did not love it back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eBut it is also a story about possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eBecause the center did not collapse by accident, it collapsed by choice. And what is chosen can be changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThis book is a reckoning.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA love letter.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA warning.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA blueprint.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; white-space: normal;\"\u003eIf you think you know the Galleria, you don’t. Not until you read this.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finding Destiny Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":66713624641840,"sku":"0860015378323","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-center-that-could-not-hold","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}