Life Is So Good
by George Dawson
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
One man’s extraordinary journey through the twentieth century and how he learned to read at age 98 “Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn’t anything I would change about my life.”—George Dawson In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a slave’s grandson who learned to read at age 98 and lived to...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
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“About a black young man who was a slave and, at 98 years old, he decides that he’s going to teach himself to write.”
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