Carry On: A Story or Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family Audiobook (Free)

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

When award-winning ESPN producer Lisa Fenn returned to her hometown for a tale on the subject of two wrestlers at one of Cleveland’s toughest public high colleges, she had simply no proven fact that the trip would approximately Carry On: A TALE or Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family members change her existence. Both young men were disadvantaged students with significant physical disabilities. Dartanyon Crockett was lawfully blind as a result of Leber’s disease; Leroy Sutton dropped both his legs at eleven, when he was run over by a train. Brought together by wrestling, that they had developed a brother-like relationship as they worked to get over their disabilities.

After forming a profound reference to Dartanyon and Leroy, Fenn realized she couldn’t simply leave when filming ended; these guys had needed to overcome the chances too many occasions. Instead, Fenn devoted herself to making sure their success lengthy after the confirming was finished and the story aired-and an improbable family of three was shaped.

The years ahead will be fraught with complex challenges, but Fenn stayed with the boys every step of the way-teaching them essential life skills, helping them heal old wounds and traumatic pasts, and providing the first steady and consistent support system they’d ever had.

This powerful memoir is among love, hope, faith, and strength-a story about an unusual family and the courage to transport on, even in the most extraordinary circumstances.