Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
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Author
Publication
2015-09-15 - Ohio University Press
Language
English
Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100821421883
- ISBN-139780821421888
- Library of Congress Control Number2015018911
- OCLC Control Number910981054
- Better World Books9780821421888
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27508932M
Classifications
- LCCE185.97.T745 A3 2015
- LCCE185.97.T745A3 2015
Description
"'After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,' Otis Trotter writes in Keeping Heart : A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents. By tracing the family's movement northward after the unexpected death of his father, this engaging chronicle illuminates the journeys not only of a black man born with heart disease in the southern Appalachian coalfields, but of his family and community. This testament to the importance of ordinary lives fills a gap in the literature on an underexamined aspect of American experience: the lives of African Americans in rural Appalachia and in the nonurban endpoints of the Great Migration"--
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