How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South Music as they battle bravely for

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A Liturgy for One Who Cares for an Infirm Parent

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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South Music as they battle bravely forFor much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. But that narrative was called into question one night, when McCaulley answered the phone and learned that his fatherwhose absence defined his upbringingdied in a car crash.