How Far to the Promised Land is a compelling memoir of hard work, determination, faith, racism, and hard-won achievement.
How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCaulley
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction, Memoir, Forgiveness, Complicated Family, African-American, Spiritual, Diverse Reads, Autobiography
Welcome to #ThrowBackThursday where I highlight an older review or post a current review of a backlist title. This week, I’m featuring a compelling memoir, How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCaulley.
I’m linking up with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #ThrowbackThursday.
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My Summary:
When you’re born into family dysfunction, drug addiction, struggle, and hopelessness, your pursuit of education and vocation is the fight of your life.
How Far to the Promised Land is the story of hard work, determination, faith, racism, forgiveness, and hard-won achievement. One of the most difficult things Esau McCaulley faces (and the premise for this memoir) is writing his own father’s eulogy. How do you write an honest and respectful eulogy for a person who failed you? To do that, McCaulley seeks to understand his family’s complicated past.
” Life is hard. The road is long and winding, and the path to the promised land is not always clear. Nonetheless, hard lives are beautiful in their own way. Wanderings are instructive in their own right.”
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That does sound like an interesting read. Eulogies are hard to write.
Complicated emotions.