Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility
Jason G. Green
One World
On her deathbed, Jason C. Green's beloved ninety-five-year-old grandmother detailed her life story dating back to her 1918 birth in Quince Orchard, a town that once stood where they now sat, erased by the vestiges of time. Quince Orchard’s lost story is part of what Green calls the texture in the American fabric: the moral leadership of the Black church, the longstanding resilience of the Black community, and the transformative love of the Black family. Fueled by a new understanding of his own roots, Green traces his paternal family through a century of life in a single place.