Popular Literature Book Group

Girard Free Library This month's pick is If Someday Comes by David Callaway. "This is the true story of my Great-Grandfather George Calloway, a slave in Cleveland, Tennessee, before and during the Civil War. It is written as historical fiction, based on George's life, and stories I heard growing up. It is a tale of determination, perseverance, and achievement.George protected his family through war, famine, and plague; he risked his life repeatedly to protect his owner's family, and thus his own wife and children.More fact than fiction, George's story has also been my journey, grappling with the humiliation of slavery; sorting through the many myths and false modern-day narratives, and discovering a long lost relative, I found that to understand America, you must first understand the Civil War. George was then, and remains, a hero of our family."