Book Rec of the Day 2/1/2007

MEMOIRS

Few books you’ll read this year will be so filled with hope and honesty and tenacity and joy as George Dawson’s memoir. Dawson wrote the book at 101 years of age, and in it he recounts his life as the grandson of a slave, a man who worked hard all his life, and didn’t learn to read until he turned 98. The book is a plain-spoken portrait of a century, a reminder of a segregated South, and a tribute to perseverance and a positive attitude. A great way to kick off Black History Month.
LIFE IS SO GOOD, by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman (Penguin, 2001)