Reservations, Good Times, and Apprehensions: A Life in Full (The Complete Witness Series Collection)

Reservations, Good Times, and Apprehensions is Volume VII of The Witness Series — a memoir and genealogical record from a father who has outlived two of his children. Tracing family lines from Mecklenburg, Germany to the rice country of Arkansas, from Revolutionary War supply lines in South Carolina to a household in Flint, Michigan, this book follows the improbable chain of survival that had to hold, generation after generation, for any of us to exist at all. Written by a Vilomah — a parent who has outlived a child — this is not a clinical account. It is testimony: what it costs to keep going, and what's owed to the people, named and unnamed, who kept going before you.