Recollections

Recollections begins in 1949 when the author's family lived in a one-room apartment in a rooming house. The saga relates many astounding and progressive changes that took place in southern suburbia during the fifties and early sixties. Recollections tells the heartfelt stories of the romantic pursuits of a skinny, underachieving boy and of the many heartbreaks he endures. Somehow, he manages to rise from the ashes of the burned-out romances and finds the strength to forge ahead in search of the perfect girl who will love him for all time. For the younger readers, Recollections provides intriguing, detailed accounts of an era that is long past; and for senior readers it offers the opportunity to take a mental stroll down memory lane and reminisce about the good old days!

Harry Garner and his beloved father, Ray, collaborated on the writing of this epic tale which covers a period of 358 years. Ray contributed years of painstaking genealogical research, and some of the fictional story lines which Harry expanded and embellished with his special flair for the romantic, dramatic, and traumatic facets of life. The author injected the characters with the sensitivity, compassion, sense of humor, and morality which he infused into the characters of his first book, Recollections, which was published in 2007. Harry resides with his wife, Charlotte, in DeSoto County, Mississippi; where they have resided since 1974.