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In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit family and cared for each other, the two went on to lead very different lives. Featuring a new foreword by Congressman John Lewis, this book brings back to print the combined lives of Will Campbell—Will the brother and Will the preacher. The two brothers' lives become mythic for the reader.

It is a scrupulously honest statement of what it has been to be a southerner, of what it is to be a human being. His spirit and his superb writing make Brother to a Dragonfly stand out among memoirs of the Movement. What a book! My mind was making little explosions as I read through the pages of this memoir about two brothers, the South, and racism. The telling of it touched me deeply.

What I take away from it now is different than what I would have taken away as a younger person--and times have changed. We go through evolutions in our lives, and we come to see things differently than we once did. Will Campbell, as well, learns and sorts as he goes. The imagery is powerful, and the message is powerful. The book's two threads, interwoven to the end, captivated me: the brothers and their somewhat painful but loyal and loving relationship, and the preacher who is the man for the job as he carries the race burden for the marginalized and strives to use his life to awaken the country to its ignorance and injustice.

Campbell's total conversion, after twenty years of preaching, is worth reading. He is asked which one of two men does God love most, a man who was recently murdered? Or the person who murdered him? Campbell struggles to answer. Moments later he has an epiphany. It was a revelation. The glow of the malt which we were well into by then seemed to illuminate and intensify it.

I walked across the room and opened the blind, staring directly into the glare of the street light. And I began to whimper. Featuring a new foreword by Congressman John Lewis, this book brings back to print the combined lives of Will Campbell-Will the brother and Will the preacher. Add to cart. Will D. John McAvoy: Redemption. Redemption: From Iron Bars to Ironman is the fascinating, frightening and inspirational autobiography of former career criminal, now world-record holder and endurance athlete John Mc Avoy.

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