title: Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family
author:  Lisa Fenn 
description: A poignant memoir by an ex-ESPN producer who befriended two disabled inner-city wrestlers as they struggled to rise.. (<em>Sports Illustrated</em>)<br /><br /><em>Carry On</em> is an incredible life-affirming story that would not be believed if it werent true (<em>Family Circle</em>)<br /><br />An engrossing tale that is equal parts despair, hope and triumph. (<em>Ohio Magazine</em>)<br /><br /><em>Carry On</em> is a surprising book, not only due to the tremendous hearts within these two young men, but because the failures and triumphs in their stories dont align with typical narrative rhythms. They arise suddenly, jaggedly, too often shatteringly, as occurs in real life. And as in real life, the moments of understanding, of healing, of unbounded joy will astonish you with the scope of their power. (Jeff Hobbs, author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace</em>)<br /><br />A profoundly moving memoir about two boys who become men in the face of lifes toughest challenges: disability, poverty, and torn families. We see the many ways in which one person can carry another, and we are inspired to do the same. (Tim Howard, author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>The Keeper</em>)<br /><br />If you want something you never had, you must be willing to do something youve never done. This is the philosophy of <em>Carry On</em>, an astonishingly beautiful tale about the love we never knew we could experience. And like <em>The Blind Side</em> or <em>Same Kind of Different As Me</em>, Lisa Fenns work forces us to reframe our definition of family. By the end, Leroy, Dartanyon, and Lisa had me asking the question that prods us to be better humans: What would you do for a friend? (Kevin Salwen, author of <em>The Power of Half</em>)<br /><br />Great sports stories are never about sports. They are always about the trials and triumphs of the human spirit, regardless of the numbers on a scoreboard. No one knows that better than Lisa Fenn, whose heartfelt memoir of faith and the creation of an unlikely family grips you from the first page and pulls at your soul until the end. You need never have watched a second of wrestling, or any sport for that matter, to love this story, and to admire the woman who wrote it. (Steve Eubanks, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>All American</em>)
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  Keep Calm and Carry On, Children
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sharon K. Mayhew
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © Copyright Sharon K. Mayhew 2019
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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