Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine

by Otis Trotter and Joe William Trotter Jr.

Book Overview

"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter," Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.

Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821421891
• ISBN13: 9780821421895
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"