Too Precious to Lose
A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility
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Too Precious to Lose
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Jason G. Green
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ナレーター：
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Jason G. Green
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Jason G. Green
概要
“A moving and important reminder of the power of story, service, and faith.”—Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts and author of A Reason to Believe
Jason G. Green was raised on fellowship—literally. Fellowship Lane served as a spiritual metaphor throughout his coming of age. A precocious preacher’s kid, Green felt a call to the ministry but ultimately devoted himself to public service. After working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, the young attorney spent four and a half years serving in the White House as special assistant to President Obama.
However, Green’s government career was cut short by a devastating call. It seemed his beloved ninety-five-year-old grandmother was on her deathbed. At her side, he listened in disbelief while she detailed her life story dating back to her 1918 birth in Quince Orchard, a town that once stood where they now sat, erased by the vestiges of time. How could he have never known the legacy of this robust community that he’d descended from? How could its entire existence have vanished from history but for the memory of a few elders? Green’s historical research uncovered a surprising trove of tales about his newly freed ancestors who built an African American house of worship, and whose progeny, on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, made the brave decision to create an integrated church. Quince Orchard’s lost story is part of what Green calls the texture in the American fabric: the moral leadership of the Black church, the longstanding resilience of the Black community, and the transformative love of the Black family.
Fueled by a new understanding of his own roots, Green traces his paternal family through a century of life in a single place. Seeking answers to deeply personal, contemporary questions about belonging, he finds that and more truths from the compassionate, communal-led lives of his forebearers.
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“Too Precious to Lose is what happens when history and heart work together. Jason G. Green writes with the same clarity and conviction he carried when I knew him at the White House. He transforms family stories into a vision for collective belonging. This is how we need to show up for one another in these times.”—Deesha Dyer, former White House counsel and author of Undiplomatic
“Jason G. Green’s Too Precious to Lose is a moving and important reminder of the power of story, service, and faith. This is a timely book for anyone who needs assurance that participatory democracy is a living experience, not just an abstract idea.”—Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts and author of A Reason to Believe
“I’ve stood with Green and his family at Pleasant View, on the very ground where this story begins. Too Precious to Lose captures the spirit of that place. Green has written a book that reminds us how history lives in people, not just on pages.”—Chris Van Hollen, U.S. senator from Maryland
“Jason G. Green tells the kind of story that has guided my career—the textured, truth-tethered narratives of our community that don’t always make the headlines but define so much of who we are. Too Precious to Lose is remembrance and revelation at once, uncovering a history hidden in plain sight and reminding us what’s at stake when we fail to listen. In a moment when our history is being threatened with erasure, Green’s work calls us back to the people, places, and memories that shaped us and this nation.”—David A. Wilson, co-founder of TheGrio and co-director of Meeting David Wilson
“Jason G. Green’s Too Precious to Lose is a moving and important reminder of the power of story, service, and faith. This is a timely book for anyone who needs assurance that participatory democracy is a living experience, not just an abstract idea.”—Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts and author of A Reason to Believe
“I’ve stood with Green and his family at Pleasant View, on the very ground where this story begins. Too Precious to Lose captures the spirit of that place. Green has written a book that reminds us how history lives in people, not just on pages.”—Chris Van Hollen, U.S. senator from Maryland
“Jason G. Green tells the kind of story that has guided my career—the textured, truth-tethered narratives of our community that don’t always make the headlines but define so much of who we are. Too Precious to Lose is remembrance and revelation at once, uncovering a history hidden in plain sight and reminding us what’s at stake when we fail to listen. In a moment when our history is being threatened with erasure, Green’s work calls us back to the people, places, and memories that shaped us and this nation.”—David A. Wilson, co-founder of TheGrio and co-director of Meeting David Wilson
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