The Stone Thrower: A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life

Jael Ealey Richardson

ISBN 10: 1721365265 / ISBN 13: 9781721365265

Published by AUDIBLE STUDIOS ON BRILLIANCE, 2018

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Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Stone Thrower: A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life
• Publisher: AUDIBLE STUDIOS ON BRILLIANCE
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1721365265
• ISBN 13: 9781721365265
• Condition: Hervorragend
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father's legendary past in football.  

At the age of 30, Jael Ealey Richardson traveled with her father - former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey - for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his 40th high school reunion. Knowing very little about her father's past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her father's move from the projects of Portsmouth, Ohio, to Canada's professional football league in the early 1970s. At the railroad tracks where her father first learned to throw with stones, Jael begins an unexpected journey into her family's past.   

In this engaging father-daughter memoir, Richardson records some of her father's never-before told stories: his relationship with his absentee father, memories of his high school and college football victories - including a winning record that remains unbroken to this day - and his up-and-down relationship with the woman he would one day marry.   

As Richardson begins unraveling the story of her father's life, she begins to compare her own childhood growing up in Canada with her father's US civil rights era upbringing. Along the way, she also discovers the real reason - despite his athletic accomplishments - her father was never drafted into the National Football League.   

The Stone Thrower is a moving story about race and destiny written by a daughter looking for answers about her own black history. Using insightful interviews, archival records, and her personal reflections, Richardson's journey to learn about her father's past leads her to her own important discoveries about herself and what it really means to be black in Canada.

About the Author

Jael Richardson has a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Excerpts from her first play my upside down black face are published in the anthology T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers. Her first memoir, The Stone Thrower, is due for release in the fall. She currently lives in Brampton with her husband and son, and teaches literature and communications at Humber College.