{ "item_title" : "Journey to the River", "item_author" : [" Richard Sheldon "], "item_description" : "Journey to the River by Rick Sheldon is a coming-of-age memoir about childhood adventures in 1960s South Carolina, family, a father changed by war, forgiveness, and the lifelong journey toward understanding.ForewordThere comes a time in every life when memories begin to matter more than possessions.The older I became, the more I realized that the greatest inheritance my parents left me wasn't found in a bank account, a piece of property, or an old family heirloom. It was found in stories.Some made me laugh.Some made me cry.Some took more than fifty years to fully understand.This book began as an attempt to preserve those memories before time quietly carried them away. I thought I was writing about growing up in South Carolina, chasing adventures with my brother Steve, looking up to my sister Debbie, learning life's lessons from Ruby, and trying to make sense of a father I loved but didn't always understand.I was wrong.Somewhere along the journey, I realized I wasn't writing about my childhood as much as I was writing about the people who shaped it.My father taught me that even good people can carry invisible wounds.My mother showed me what unwavering faith, sacrifice, and perseverance look like.My brother and sister reminded me that the people who share your childhood become the keepers of your memories.Ruby showed me a kind of love I would understand more fully years later.As I wrote these pages, something unexpected happened.The little boy named Ricky slowly gave way to the man writing this book.Memories I had questioned for decades found clarity.Questions I had carried since childhood finally found answers.This memoir is not an attempt to prove that my family was extraordinary.We weren't.Like every family, we experienced joy and heartache, success and failure, laughter and loss.What made them extraordinary to me was their willingness to keep loving one another through it all.If these pages remind you of your own parents, your own siblings, or the people who quietly shaped your life, then this book has done exactly what I hoped it would do.Most of all, I hope this story finds its way into the hands of my family for generations to come.To my daughter, thank you for giving my life a purpose greater than myself.And to my grandson, Stowe Beecher, who may one day read these pages long after I'm gone...I hope you discover more than stories here.I hope you discover where you came from.Because before you can truly know where you're going, it helps to know the shoulders upon which you stand.These are our stories.This is our family.This is our journey.- Rick SheldonWHY I WROTE THIS BOOKI didn't begin writing this book to become an author.I began writing because memories fade.Names disappear.Stories get lost.Journey to the River, Rick Sheldon, coming-of-age memoir, Southern childhood memoir, and family forgiveness.Tom Sawyerbooks like Huckleberry Finnbooks like Forrest Gumptrue-life adventure storynostalgic coming-of-age storyhumorous childhood memoiremotional family storyinspirational true storySouthern storytellingliterary memoirfirst-time memoir authorfamily memorieschildhood adventuresbrothers and sisterssibling memoriesfather and son memoirunderstanding your fatherfamily forgivenesshealing childhood memoriesgenerational traumaVietnam veteran familymilitary family memoirPTSD and familyveterans returning from warmother raising children alonerace relations in the Southcivil rights era childhoodfriendship across racial linesfaith and childhoodredemption and forgivenessself-discovery memoirFamily", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/302/9798193021957_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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