Farming to Pharmacy

Description

Life turns on small moments, those innocuous events that appear like nothing but grow into something more lasting, and Truman Lastinger is no different. Born into a share- cropper’s family in rural Georgia, Truman had no expectation of leaving his hometown or going to college– that was not the life of a sharecropper’s son–but then a local pharmacist took an interest in his future, and Truman flipped a coin to meet a girl. Two small events combined to change his life–transporting him from the farm to his own pharmacy.

Truman collects these moments and memories that have guided his life from a little boy hitting a flaming baseball to a pharmacist fighting for his community’s right to health. In turn, this autobiography, Farming to Pharmacy: Memories of a Sharecropper’s son, recounts not only his story, but the story of the rural South, of hardships imposed on the unsuspecting, of communities struggling together, and families surviving through the absurd, tragic, and jubilant realities of daily life.