There Will Be No Miracles Here

Posted on 14 February 2017 by Casey Gerald

The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides His story begins at the end of the world Dallas, New Year s Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather s black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks When Casey following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the team is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a world he s never dreamed of, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the scheme There Will Be No Miracles Here has the arc of a classic rags to riches tale, but it stands the American Dream narrative on its head If to live as we are is destroying us, it asks, what would it mean to truly live Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humor and quiet fury,There Will Be No Miracles Here inspires us to question even shatter and reimagine our most cherished myths. Download There Will Be No Miracles Here author Casey Gerald – kino-fada.fr Unlike any book, or any memoir, I have ever read Casey s honesty is equal parts shame and pride, brains and ignorance, hope and despair His story is still unfolding, and I ll be first in line for a follow up volumeT...I read a lot of memoirs I love memoirs This is one of the best I ve ever read It s so beautifully written, so honest, and so timely The perfect trifecta of a memoir.I was asked to read this ARC memoir for an honest review It is already receiving notable buzz from many reliable, reputable sources Lissa Muscatine One of the owners of Politics Prose and Colm Toibin Author to name two And, the true life story of Casey Gerald s rise from rags to riches is truly astonishing in the way only true stories can be The book begins at a religious revival with 12 year old Casey discovering doubt for the first time in his life He grew up in Texas with a I was asked to read this ARC memoir for an honest review It is already receiving notable buzz from many reliable, reputable sources Lissa Muscatine One of the owners of Politics Prose and Colm Toibin Author to name two And, the true life story of Casey Gerald s rise from rags to riches is truly astonishing in the way only true stories can be The book begins at a religious revival with 12 year old Casey discovering doubt for the first time in his life He grew up in Texas with a father who following a legendary football career descends into drug use and a mother who battled mental illness His sister and other female family members were the ones who saved Casey saved him from bullying, saved h...I think this is a fabulous book, a life so far lead with no shortage of problems, na vet , desire, strength, foolishness, and enlightenment just like many of us and also very different from many of us He shows us his path without judgements except for himself and thus shows us a way t...An interesting memoir A coming of age tale, of a young queer black boy Rags to riches From the other side of the river in Dallas in 1999, in a family of preachers, with a father who was a star football player, and then bec...Casey Gerald, the author of this magical mystical tour, is a Yale grad, football star and business maven who was raised in poverty In his 30s, he is still defining himself by a standard that includes equal parts angst, irony and glimmers of hope.Casey s father was a football star back in the day when black college players were a rarity He was also absent for much of his son s adolescence, reappearing as a reformed addict whose redemption was sufficient to earn him a role as an evangelical prea Casey Gerald, the author of this magical mystical tour, is a Yale grad, football star and business maven who was raised in poverty In his 30s, he is still defining himself by a standard that includes equal parts angst, irony and glimmers of hope.Casey s father was a football star back in the day when black college players were a rarity He was also absent for much of his son s adolescence, reappearing as a reformed addict whose redemption was sufficient to earn him a role as ...I tried to force myself through this book and succeeded through it for awhile It might have a message somewhere in there about who Casey is was and what he has learned Obviously, he had an unsettled childho...Probablylike 3.5 stars, but I m rounding up because the writing is beautiful The story is disjointed and I didn t care for how he chose to wrap up the book kind of a cliffhanger what is he doing now What was he doing at publication time It just drifts off , but the storytelling is c...Wow, I read a lot of memoirs but haven t read one like this oftenmaybe ever The details of the journey aren t what makes this book so amazing but rather the raw feeling that comes through every word Seriously, this memoir is poetry.Top 5 best books I ve read in 2018

14 February 2017

Casey Gerald