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The Stone Thrower: A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life,Used
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A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her fathers legendary past in football.At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his fortieth high school reunion. Knowing very little about her fathers past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her fathers move from the projects of Portsmouth, Ohio to Canadas 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 familys past.In this engaging fatherdaughter memoir, Richardson records some of her fathers neverbefore 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 upanddown relationship with the woman he would one day marry.As Richardson begins unravelling the story of her fathers life, she begins to compare her own childhood growing up in Canada, with her fathers 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, Richardsons journey to learn about her fathers past leads her to her own important discoveries about herself, and what it really means to be black in Canada.
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