PREVAIL: Don't Let Nothing or No One Hold You Back

He entered the world sick, with doctors who had given up — and one who refused to. Born on October 29, 1966, at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, Reginold Pazelee Daniels arrived with spots on his lungs and a touch of spinal meningitis. The room had already started giving itself over to the possibility that he would not survive. But something in him insisted on staying. That insistence never left. PREVAIL is the memoir of a man raised between two worlds — the church and the streets of San Francisco's Sunnydale housing projects — who somehow built a life from the collision of both. It is a story about what happens when discipline and danger live in the same household, when love and violence speak the same language, and when a child must learn to survive before he has the words to name what is happening to him. From the hands of a grandfather who built things that still stand today, to the grief of addiction and the cold lessons of incarceration — from stages and street corners to City Hall, classrooms, and doctoral robes on the steps of a university — Dr. Reginold Pazelee Daniels charts the full arc of a life that refused, again and again, to be finished. This is not a clean redemption story. There is no single moment of rescue. No easy turn. What there is instead is something rarer: a man becoming legible to himself — slowly, painfully, and without apology. A man who learned that survival before consciousness is still survival, and that the long labor of becoming whole is its own kind of triumph. PREVAIL is for anyone who has ever been told — by circumstance, by systems, by the weight of their own history — that they were not going to make it. It is for the wrestlers. The ones who arrived under pressure and stayed anyway. Don't let nothing or no one hold you back.
ASIN: B0GWCR4V11
VSKU: BVV.B0GWCR4V11.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Daniels, Dr. Reginold P
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use