Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family

✍ Scribed by Fenn, Lisa

• Book ID: 108991164
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In the spirit of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights comes a tender and profoundly moving memoir about an ESPN producer's unexpected relationship with two disabled African-American wrestlers from inner city Cleveland, and how these bonds--blossoming, ultimately, into a most unorthodox family--would transform their lives.

When award-winning ESPN producer Lisa Fenn returned to her hometown for a story about two wrestlers at one of Cleveland's toughest public high schools, she had no idea that the trip would change her life. Both young men were disadvantaged students with significant physical disabilities. Dartanyon Crockett, the team's best wrestler, was legally blind as a result of Leber's disease; Leroy Sutton lost both his legs at eleven, when he was run over by a train. Brought together by wrestling, they had developed a brother-like bond as they worked to overcome their disabilities.

In their time developing the segment together, Fenn formed a...