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Not Far From The Tree

Not Far From The Tree

Simmons, Eric Otis

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ISBN10: 1720692300
ISBN13: 9781720692300
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 7 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Not Far From The Tree is a Memoir by Eric Otis Simmons, a Black man raised by a single mother (Jean) whose teachings enabled him to overcome racism and go on to excel academically, athletically, and in Corporate America. In his book, Simmons shares his life story through a series of smaller stories that range from shocking to calamitous to sorrowful to triumphing. He opens up about microaggressions (i.e., indignities) he experienced from whites and shares that his mom was brutally assaulted at gunpoint when he was thirteen. After suspecting a recently released convict had committed the attack, his mother caught him leaving the house with a butcher's knife. After talking her son out exacting revenge, Jean knew she had to do something drastic to save him from a potential life in the penal system. Within days, the two moved to Montgomery, Alabama, leaving Little Rock and all of their belongings behind, save the two suitcases of clothes they had taken with them. After initially struggling in his new hometown, Simmons channeled his inner anger towards something more constructive - academics and athletics. He would go on to graduate in the Top 10% of his high school and college classes and become a varsity basketball letterman at Auburn University.

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