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Can I read In the company of Grace : a veterinarian's memoir of trauma and healing on EtoBox?
In the company of Grace : a veterinarian's memoir of trauma and healing by Moira V. Faul ; Laura Savage is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is In the company of Grace : a veterinarian's memoir of trauma and healing about?
The son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassion in veterinary practice Rising to accept a prestigious award, Jody Lulich wondered what to say. Explain how he’d been attracted to veterinary medicine? Describe how caring for helpless, voiceless animals in his own shame and pain provided a lifeline, a chance to heal himself as well? Lulich tells his story in In the Company of Grace, a memoir about finding courage in compassion and strength in healing—and power in finally confronting the darkness of his youth. Lulich’s white father and Black mother met at a civil rights rally, but love was no defense against their personal demons. His mother’s suicide, in his presence when he was nine years old, and his sometimes brutal father’s subsequent withdrawal set Lulich on a course from the South Side of Chicago to the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine in Alabama to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota, forever searching for the approval and affection that success could not deliver. Though shadowed by troubling secrets, his memoir also features scenes of surprising light and promise—of the neighbors who take him in, a brother’
Who reads In the company of Grace : a veterinarian's memoir of trauma and healing?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Moira V. Faul ; Laura Savage
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781452968377
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, International Conferences And Symposiums, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-24