A Journey From The Turnrows Of The Delta To The Front Rows Of Higher Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798295527975)

He grew up in a cotton field. He didn't stay there.

Born into poverty in the Arkansas Delta, Rick Stripling learned survival before he ever learned a classroom - chopping cotton at ten, hauling water from a back porch pump, sleeping under the sound of rain on a tin roof.

This is the story of what happens when a poor country boy from Mississippi County, Arkansas refuses to let his beginning determine his ending.

From government cheese to a campus in Mexico, from the turnrows of the Delta to the front rows of higher education, this memoir is proof that where you start does not decide where you finish - and that God's plan rarely looks the way you expected it to.

For everyone who has ever wondered whether the life they were born into is the only life available to them - this book is your answer.